Critical theory and the digital /
This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politic...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
©2014
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014 |
Series: | Critical theory and contemporary society
Critical Theory and Contemporary Society Critical theory and contemporary society |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: From Culture Industry to Computational Industries
- Chapter 3: The Softwarization of Society
- Chapter 4: Computational Ontologies
- Chapter 5: The Reification of Everyday Life
- Chapter 6: Computational Aesthetics
- Chapter 7: Critical Praxis and the Computational
- Chapter 8: Towards a Critical Theory of the Digital
- Bibliography
- Endnotes
- Index
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Why study the digital and software?; Chapter 2 From culture industry to computational industries; Critical theory; The digital and critical theory; Chapter 3 The softwarization of society; The cyberstructure; Financialization and software; Chapter 4 Computational ontologies; Negative dialectics and fundamental ontology; Glitch ontology; Chapter 5 The reification of everyday life; Reification technologies: Web bugs, beacons and trackers; Chapter 6 Computational aesthetics; The New Aesthetic; Code aesthetics