The Digital Cast of Being : : Metaphysics, Mathematics, Cartesianism, Cybernetics, Capitalism, Communication / / Michael Eldred.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Eldred, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; 1. Approaching the question concerning digital being --; 2. Number and being --; 3. Digital beings --; 4. Spatiality of the electromagnetic medium --; 5. Digital technology and capital --; 6. A global communication network? --; 7. Appendix: A demathematizing phenomenological view of quantum mechanical indeterminacy --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110319477; 9783110238570; 9783110238488; 9783110636949; 9783110331226; 9783110331219
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110319477
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michael Eldred.

We live today surrounded by countless digital gadgets and navigate through cyberspace as if it were the most natural thing in the world. This digital cast of being, however, comes from a long history of philosophical and mathematical thinking in which the Western will to productive power over movement has attained its consummation. This study traces the digital dissolution of beings from the Pythagoreans, Plato and Aristotle's ontology via Cartesian mathematical science through to our digitized economy and telecommunications. With an appendix reinterpreting quantum mechanical indeterminacy phenomenologically.