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Contingency and plasticity in everyday technologies / edited by Natasha Lushetich, Iain Campbell, and Dominic Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Media philosophy. .
- Media philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Philosophy.
- Technology.
- Contingency (Philosophy).
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]
- Summary:
- This book theorises technology and its host of social, material, and epistemic transformation techniques, tools, and methods as indeterminate through sixteen methodologically diverse contributions from media philosophy, art and architectural theory, mathematics, computer science, and anthropology scholars.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- Social-Digital Technologies
- Information and Alterity
- Transcendental Instrumentality and Incomputable Thinking
- Digital Ontology and Contingency
- Blockchain Owns You
- The Double Spiral of Chaos and Automation
- Spatial, Temporal, Aural, and Visual Technologies
- Allagmatics of Architecture
- Computation and Material Transformations
- How the Performer Came to Be Prepared
- The Given and the Made
- Ananke's Sway
- Epistemic Technologies
- Outline to an Architectonics of Thermodynamics
- Irreversibility and Uncertainty
- 'At the Crossroads . . . '
- Ugly David and the Magnetism of Everyday Technologies
- Adjacent Possibles
- Epilogue
- Index
- About the Authors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lushetich, Natasha Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies
- ISBN:
- 1-5381-7159-7
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