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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: David Kreps, David (Nui Galway Kreps
• Assisted by: David Kreps (Editor), Kreps David (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367670641
• ISBN: 978-0-367-67064-1
• No. of pages: 134
• Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology