David (Hrsg.) Kreps

Understanding Digital Events

Bergson, Whitehead, and the Experience of the Digital

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This book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience. Focusing on the event-ontologies of Bergson and Whitehead's process metaphysics, it explores subjective experience and objective reality as unified 'events' in the form of concrete slabs of existence. Such slabs are temporally defined by a term or period, in which all physical-chemical processes and personal subjective experience are included. Bringing together insights from a range of different specialisms, it urges us to consider a science of nature that includes both physical and non-physical realities and, from this ontological position, draws on philosophy… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-429-62866-5
EAN: 9780429628665
Produktnummer: 31596740
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 148 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'274 KB
Abbildungen: 14 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 14 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 5 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

David Kreps is a Reader in Philosophy of Information Systems at the University of Salford, UK, and British Academy Mid-Career Fellow. His books include This Changes Everything: ICT and Climate Change - What Can We Do?; Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems; Technology and Intimacy: Choice or Coercion; Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence; and Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment. He is an active member of the UNESCO affiliated International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and current Chair of IFIP Technical Committee 9 on ICT and Society.