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Digital Condition

Class and Culture in the Information Network

Autor: Rob Wilkie
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Fordham University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half...

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Autor
Rob Wilkie
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2011
Pagini
260
EAN
9780823234226
ISBN
0823234223
Enbook ID
04941144
Editura
Fordham University Press
Greutate
953
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 23

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The 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 conditionare conditioned by the actualities of global class inequalities. It is no longer the case that technologycan 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 diffrance--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.

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