On the Existence of Digital Objects [electronic resource] / Yuk Hui ; foreword by Bernard Stiegler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hui, Yuk, 1985-

Series:

Electronic mediations ; 48.

Electronic mediations ; 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital electronics--Technological innovations.

Digital electronics.

Digital electronics--Philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London, [England] : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Digital objects, in their simplest form, are data. They are also a new kind of industrial object that pervades every aspect of our life today - as online videos, images, text files, e-mails, blog posts, Facebook events. Yet the nature of digital objects remains unclear. This book conducts a philosophical examination of digital objects and their organizing schema by creating a dialogue between Martin Heidegger and Gilbert Simondon, which Yuk Hui contextualizes within the history of computing. How can digital objects be understood according to individualization and individuation? Hui pursues this question through the history of ontology and the study of markup languages and Web ontologies; he investigates the existential structure of digital objects within their systems and milieux.

Contents:

Outline of an investigation on digital objects

Objects

The genesis of digital objects

Digital objects and ontologies

Relations

The space of networks

The time of technical systems

Logics

Logic and object

Logic and time.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-5434-8

1-4529-4993-X

OCLC:

946038786