Movement and Time in the Cyberworld: Questioning the Digital Cast of Being

Michael Eldred

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Movement and Time in the Cyberworld

Questioning the Digital Cast of Being

Michael Eldred

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661033

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About this book

The cyberworld fast rolling in and impacting every aspect of human living on the globe today presents an enormous challenge to humankind. It is taken up by the media following current events through to all kinds of natural- and social-scientific discourses. Digitized technoscience develops at a breakneck pace in all areas accompanied by sociological analysis. What is missing is a philosophical response genuinely posing the basic ontological question: What is a digital being's peculiar mode of being? The present study offers a digital ontology that analyzes the dissolution of beings into bit-strings, driven by mathematized science. The mathematization of knowledge reaches back to Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle, and continues with Descartes, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz. Western knowledge from its inception has always been driven by an unbridled will to efficient-causal power over all kinds of movement and change. This historical trajectory culminates in the universal Turing machine that enables efficient, automated, algorithmic control over the movement of digital beings through the cyberworld. The book fills in the ontological foundations underpinning this brave new cyberworld and interrogates them, especially by questioning the millennia-old conception of 1D-linear time. An alternative ontology of movement arises, based on a radically alternative conception of 3D-time.

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Michael Eldred, Cologne.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
1. Approaching the question concerning digital being Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Number, being, movement and time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
3. Digital beings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
4. Spatiality of the electromagnetic medium: cyberspace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
5. Digital technology and capital in the cyberworld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
6. Global communication in the cyberworld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
7. Appendix: A demathematizing phenomenological interpretation of quantum-mechanical indeterminacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
8. Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, institutes, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 235
Keywords: Hermeneutische Phänomenologie; Digitale Ontologie; Kapitalismus; Cyberworld

eBook

Published: May 6, 2019
ISBN: 9783110661033

Hardcover

Published: May 6, 2019
ISBN: 9783110657302