The Digital Condition : Class and Culture in the Information Network / Rob Wilkie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkie, Rob (Robert A.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth centuryâ€" developments which make up the concept of the “digitalâ€?â€"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. In The Digital Condition, Rob Wilkie advances a groundbreaking analysis of digital culture which argues that the digital geistâ€"which has its genealogy in such concepts as the “body without organs,â€? “spectrality,â€? and “différanceâ€?â€"has obscured the implications of class difference with the phantom of a digital divide.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100597

ISBN:

9780823234226

OCLC:

923763551

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access