Critical theory and the digital /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berry, David M (David Michael) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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
Subjects:
Critical theory
Digital media > Social aspects
Information society
Information technology > Social aspects
Médias numériques > Aspect social
Société informatisée
Technologie de l'information > Aspect social
Théorie critique
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
Electronic books
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

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