Digital Reason

Name: Digital Reason
Author: Jan Baetens

A Guide to Meaning, Medium and Community in a Modern World

Paperback EN 2020 1e druk 9789462702066

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The digital revolution has changed our ways of thinking, working, writing, and living together. In this book the authors critically analyse the ways in which these new technologies have reshaped our world in numerous respects, ranging from politics, ideology, and philosophy over art and communication to memory and identity. The book challenges the customary view of a divide between analogue and digital culture, claiming instead that human endeavour has always been characterised by certain forms and aspects of digital thinking, building, and communicating, and that essential parts of analog culture are still being reshaped by new digital technologies. It offers a multidisciplinary approach to digital reason, reflecting the diversity of humanities scholarship and its fundamental contribution to the ongoing changes in our current and future thinking and doing.

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ISBN13:9789462702066

Taal:EN

Bindwijze:paperback

Aantal pagina's:280

Uitgever:Leuven University Press

Druk:1

Verschijningsdatum:13-1-2020

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Inhoudsopgave

Introduction: We Have Always Been Digital

Part One Mass Meaning
1
Starry Sky and Moral Law
The Purpose of Historically Modern Humans
Enlightenment and the Public Sphere
The Science of Nature and the Science of Humankind
Self-interest and Sympathy
The Spectacle of Progress and the Machinery of Education

2
Evolution and Culture
The “Middle Classes” and “the Masses Below Them”
Science and Culture
Bildung and Propaganda
“A Race Between Education and Catastrophe”
Genes, Memes, Imaging and Imagination
Big Words

Part Two Medium
3
Media Cultures
Medium Theory vs Media Theory
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
Stanley Cavell (1926–2018)
Remediation, Intermediality, Transmediality and the Others
The Digital Turn
Medium Archaeology 1

4
Electronic Literature, Internet Art
Digital Writing before Electronic Writing
Digital-Borne versus Digital-Born
The Digital as Cultural Form
Digital Culture and “Performation”

5
The Relocation of Digital Writing
Expanding and Relocation
New = Neo?
New Media Writing: Return to Medium-Specificity
Back to Print: Still Making Books Thanks to the Digital Turn

6
The Problem of Canonisation in the Digital Era
No Place for Canons in Digital Times?
The Archival Impulse
Saving the Canon
Relocating the Digital Void

Part Three Community
7
Digital Politics
Digital Mobilisation
From Ideology to Issue-based Participatory Politics
The Logic of Connective Action
Digital Activism and Social Movements

8
Digital Democracy
Digital Media and/as the Public Sphere
A Private Sphere
Twitter and Democracy
Anonymous

9
Digital Self
The Relational Self and the “Networked Community”
Modes of Self-presentation in Digital Media
The Self as Text
The Selfie

10
The Digital Person, the Panopticon and Kafka
Orwell and Kafka

Notes
Works Cited

Index
Subject Index
Index of Names