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The Uncoding the Digital: Technology, Subjectivity and Action in the Control Society
David Savat
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Description for The Uncoding the Digital: Technology, Subjectivity and Action in the Control Society
Hardcover. Examining the impact of digital media on surveillance, power and people's capacity for action, this book explores how people act, and are acted upon, in an increasingly connected world. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 418.
Digital media are having an enormous impact on the world. From the seemingly mundane, like playing World of Warcraft, to posting a message on Twitter or Facebook, to the operation of financial markets, to transformations in science and the economy - digital media continue to revolutionize how people live their daily life. This book challenges how we understand our relationship with our digital machines, and shows how they open up a new capacity for action in the world. A capacity for action that we should no longer simply think of in terms of movement and force, but also in terms ... Read more
Digital media are having an enormous impact on the world. From the seemingly mundane, like playing World of Warcraft, to posting a message on Twitter or Facebook, to the operation of financial markets, to transformations in science and the economy - digital media continue to revolutionize how people live their daily life. This book challenges how we understand our relationship with our digital machines, and shows how they open up a new capacity for action in the world. A capacity for action that we should no longer simply think of in terms of movement and force, but also in terms ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230278158
SKU
V9780230278158
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Ref
99-15
About David Savat
DAVID SAVAT is a lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of Western Australia. He is executive editor of the journal Deleuze Studies, and co-editor with Mark Poster of the collectionDeleuze and New Technology (2009).
Reviews for The Uncoding the Digital: Technology, Subjectivity and Action in the Control Society
'This book is a very sophisticated and polished contribution to the rapidly growing field of study around the theme generally referred to now as 'technics' (after Stiegler's work) but is also sometimes referred to as the philosophy of technology. What sets this book apart is the fact that it is equally sophisticated in its dealing with philosophy as it is ... Read more