Community Without Community in Digital Culture

Community Without Community in Digital Culture presents the view that our digital culture is determined not by greater connection, but by the separation and gap that is a necessary concomitant of our fundamental technicity.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Digitality The Theological Origins of the Digital Deconstruction, Technics and the Death of God Derrida, Nancy and the Digital Darwin after Dawkins after Derrida Slitting Open the Kantian Eye The Work of Art in the Post Age Non-Relational Aesthetics Luther Blissett Bartleby Off-line Exploding Plastic Universe Conclusion Notes and References Index

About the author

CHARLIE GERE is Professor of Media Theory and History at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Digital Culture and Art, Time and Technology, and with Michael Corris, Non-Relational Aesthetics, as well as being co-editor of White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980, and many papers on questions of technology, media and art.

Summary

Community Without Community in Digital Culture presents the view that our digital culture is determined not by greater connection, but by the separation and gap that is a necessary concomitant of our fundamental technicity.

Product details

• Authors: C Gere, C. Gere, Charlie Gere
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349439324
• ISBN: 978-1-349-43932-4
• No. of pages: 201
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; B, Media Studies, Social Inequality, Cultural Studies, Aesthetics, Communication, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Social & ethical issues, History of Philosophy, Media and Communication, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Philosophy: aesthetics, Social Structure, Philosophy and science, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, aesthetics;culture;Immanuel Kant