LEADER 04614oam 22007454a 450 001 996478971903316 005 20220801174452.0 010 $a0-8232-4152-1 010 $a0-8232-6900-0 010 $a1-283-29997-6 010 $a9786613299970 010 $a0-8232-3424-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823241521 035 $a(CKB)2550000000054685 035 $a(PromptCat)40020051823 035 $a(MH)012981692-2 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535863 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11359130 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535863 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10522742 035 $a(PQKB)11367533 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239588 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5294490 035 $a(DE-B1597)555098 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823241521 035 $a(OCoLC)760884549 035 $a(OCoLC)1111392638 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73526 035 $a(OCoLC)923763551 035 $a(ScCtBLL)76b062a3-05c9-4c0d-9b4b-c343e141b301 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000054685 100 $a20110420d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Digital Condition$eClass and Culture in the Information Network /$fRob Wilkie 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2011. 210 4$d©2011. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 239 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-3423-1 311 $a0-8232-3422-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index. 327 $aThe spirit technological -- Global networks and the materiality of immaterial labor -- Reading and writing in the digital age -- The ideology of the digital me. 330 $aThe acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century? developments which make up the concept of the ?digital??has brought us to what might be the most contradictory moment in human history. The digital revolution has made it possible not only to imagine but to actually realize a world in which social inequality and poverty are vanquished. But instead these developments have led to an unprecedented level of accumulation of private profits. Rather than the end of social inequality we are witness to its global expansion.Recent cultural theory tends to focus on the intricate surface effects of the emerging digital realities, proposing that technological advances effect greater cultural freedom for all, ignoring the underpinning social context. But beneath the surfaces of digital culture are complex social and historical relations that can be understood only from the perspective of a class analysis which explains why the new realities of the ?digital condition" are conditioned by the actualities of global class inequalities. It is no longer the case that "technology" can take on the appearance of a simple or neutral aspect of human society. It is time for a critique of the digital times.In The Digital Condition, Rob Wilkie advances a groundbreaking analysis of digital culture which argues that the digital geist?which has its genealogy in such concepts as the ?body without organs,? ?spectrality,? and ?différance??has obscured the implications of class difference with the phantom of a digital divide. Engaging the writings of Hardt and Negri, Poster, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Haraway, Latour, and Castells, the literature and cinema of cyberpunk, and digital commodities like the iPod, Wilkie initiates a new direction within the field of digital cultural studies by foregrounding the continuing importance of class in shaping the contemporary. 606 $aInformation superhighway$xSocial aspects 606 $aComputers$xSocial aspects 606 $aDigital divide 606 $aInformation technology$xSocial aspects 615 0$aInformation superhighway$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aComputers$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aDigital divide. 615 0$aInformation technology$xSocial aspects . 676 $a303.48/33 700 $aWilkie$b Rob$g(Robert A.)$01025242 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996478971903316 996 $aThe Digital Condition$92437513 997 $aUNISA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress