£90.00

Bloomsbury Logic of the Digital

Name: Logic of the Digital
Brand: Bloomsbury
Price: 90.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Computing & Internet

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£90 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 83 days • 83 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 83 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £90 (83 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £90 - £90

Price levels: 1 different prices over 83 days

Description

Building a foundational understanding of the digital, Logic of the Digital examines it as a unique ontology. Starting with its formal and technical characteristics, captured by the binary code, Aden Evens asks how the digital domain of abstract logic encounters a material, human world. Focusing on the formal, universal code and the elements of creative production, Evens shows how any encounter between the actual and the digital must cross an ontological divide: the gap between the productive materiality of the human world and the reductive abstraction of this binary code. Evens traces the distortions of this ontological crossing, looking directly at formal abstraction as well as analyzing exemplary digital technologies such as the mouse, the internet, and the concept of software. He also raises the paradoxical issue of creativity in relation to digital technologies: ontology of abstraction leaves little room for the unpredictable or accidental that is essential to creativity, but digital technologies are nevertheless patently creative. Evens tackles how the ostensibly sterile binary code can lend itself to such fecund cultural production. Through clarification of the digital s ontological foundation, Evens points to a significant threat to creativity lurking in the nature of the digital and explains the importance of creating a digital ethics. Constructing a map of the ontology of the digital, exploring the potentials of programming and using gaming as the ideal test of digital ontology, Logic of the Digital guides future practices and shapes academic research in digital technologies. Review "Evens (Dartmouth College) argues that something is lost in our interactions with digital technologies. Clearly, much is changed, but is the loss more than the gain? Evens ... develops the argument ... as a critique of abstraction, an etymological deconstruction of language used to talk about abstraction, and prescriptive critical analyses of Smalltalk, the user interface, and the World Wide Web. ... It may well be that digital objects have a more austere logic than physical objects, but this makes it even more important to understand how they have nevertheless transformed human activity and experience so rapidly and thoroughly. Useful for graduate students, primarily to provoke critical discussions about digital technology. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students." - CHOICE About the Author Aden Evens is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College, USA.

Product Specifications

Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1472566734
Category: Books > Subjects > Computing & Internet
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 24 September 2015
Listed Since: 02 December 2013

Barcode

No barcode data available

Bloomsbury Logic of the Digital

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis (Theory and Interpretation of Narrative)

Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Western & Eastern Studies: 2 (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 2)

Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Western & Eastern Studies: 2 (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 2)

The Changing Scope of Technoethics in Contemporary Society (Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics)

Modern Approaches for Intelligent Information and Database Systems: 769 (Studies in Computational Intelligence, 769)

Springer Reasoning in Event-Based Distributed Systems 347

Springer Reasoning in Event-Based Distributed Systems 347

The Ethics of Ordinary Technology (Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society)

AI-Based Services for Smart Cities and Urban Infrastructure

Design Computing and Cognition '16

Technology and the City: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies: 36 (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 36)

Technology and the City: Towards a Philosophy of Urban Technologies: 36 (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 36)

Routledge - A Philosophy of Computer Art by Dominic Lopes

Think in 4D: Design brilliant user experiences and valuable digital products

Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXV: Proceedings of AI-2008, The Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence: 25

Computer and Information Science: 656 (Studies in Computational Intelligence, 656)

Johan van Benthem on Logic and Information Dynamics: 5 (Outstanding Contributions to Logic, 5)

American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers)

Informatics and Management Science I: 204 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 204)

A Companion to Digital Ethics (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Digital Transformation and Innovation

The Quicksands of Belief: The Need for Skepticism: 217 (American University Studies)

Engineering Computational Emotion - A Reference Model for Emotion in Artificial Systems: 33 (Cognitive Systems Monographs, 33)

Donald Davidson on Action, Mind and Value (Logic in Asia: Studia Logica Library)