Understanding Digital Events: Bergson, Whitehead, and the Experience of the Digital

ISBN-13: 9780367670641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 134 str.

David Kreps

Opis

An examination of the manner in which process philosophy may be applied to contemporary technological experience, this book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Technology, Narrative, and Performance in the Social Theatre  3. Not Merely Physical  4. Event and Mind: An Expanded Bergsonian Perspective  5. From Darkness to Light: Design to Evoke the Unconscious  6. Digital Events and the Ethics of Neuro-ICT  7. Experiencing Reality Alive: Bergson and Whitehead on Engaged Experience  8. Discussion and Conclusions for the Notion of Infomateriality  Bibliography

O autorze

David Kreps is Lecturer in the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at NUI Galway, Ireland. His books include This Changes Everything: ICT and Climate Change – What Can We Do?; Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems; Technology and Intimacy: Choice or Coercion; Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence; and Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment. He is an active member of the UNESCO affiliated International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and current Chair of IFIP Technical Committee 9 on ICT and Society.