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Author : Peter Lunenfeld
Release : 2000
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 373/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Digital Dialectic by : Peter Lunenfeld
Download or read book The Digital Dialectic written by Peter Lunenfeld. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How our visual and intellectual cultures are changed by the new interaction-based media and technologies.
Author : David Arditi
Release : 2019-08-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 871/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Dialectic of Digital Culture by : David Arditi
Download or read book The Dialectic of Digital Culture written by David Arditi. This book was released on 2019-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection analyzes the role of digital technology in contemporary society dialectically. While many authors, journalists, and commentators have argued that the internet and digital technologies will bring us democracy, equality, and freedom, digital culture often results in loss of privacy, misinformation, and exploitation. This collection challenges celebratory readings of digital technology by suggesting digital culture's potential is limited because of its fundamental relationship to oppressive social forces. The Dialectic of Digital Culture explores ways the digital realm challenges and reproduces power. The contributors provide innovative case studies of various phenomenon including #metoo, Etsy, mommy blogs, music streaming, sustainability, and net neutrality to reveal the reproduction of neoliberal cultural logics. In seemingly transformative digital spaces, these essays provide dialectical readings that challenge dominant narratives about technology and study specific aspects of digital culture that are often under explored. Check out the blog for more: http://blog.uta.edu/digitaldialectic
Author : Kristin Youmans
Release : 2007
Genre : Social media
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Book Synopsis Redefining the Digital Dialectic by : Kristin Youmans
Download or read book Redefining the Digital Dialectic written by Kristin Youmans. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis redefines a dialectical model that is appropriate for today's contemporary technological context, specifically based on the introduction of user-generated technologies. In the chapter titled 'Dialectic Through History' I describe the history of dialectic up to and including its most recent use in the 1999 essay collection The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media. The following chapter describes the shift from the Industrial Age to the Information Age, as illustrated through the transition from Web 1.0 technologies to Web 2.0, and then illustrates a dialectical model that is based on its historical foundational principles described in Chapter 2 combined with today's emerging technological, social, and economic contexts. The next chapter lists current day examples of today's dialectical oppositions between the social and economic principles founded in the Industrial Age versus those emerging during the Information Age. I then conclude by discussing the possibilities for the future of dialectic as related to Web 3.0"--Abstract.
Author : Agnes Gayraud
Release : 2020-01-28
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 603/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dialectic of Pop by : Agnes Gayraud
Download or read book Dialectic of Pop written by Agnes Gayraud. This book was released on 2020-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspected depths. In the first major philosophical treatise on the subject, Agnès Gayraud explores all the paradoxes of pop—its inauthentic authenticity, its mass production of emotion and personal resonance, its repetitive novelty, its precision engineering of seduction—and calls for pop (in its broadest sense, encompassing all genres of popular recorded music) to be recognized as a modern, technologically mediated art form to rank alongside cinema and photography. In a thoroughgoing engagement with Adorno's fierce critique of "standardized light popular music," Dialectic of Pop tracks the transformations of the pop form and its audience over the course of the twentieth century, from Hillbilly to Beyoncé, from Lead Belly to Drake. Inseparable from the materiality of its technical media, indifferent and intractable to the perspectives of high culture, pop subverts notions of authenticity and inauthenticity, original and copy, aura and commodity, medium and message. Gayraud demonstrates that, far from being the artless and trivial mass-produced pabulum denigrated by Adorno, pop is a rich, self-reflexive artform that recognises its own contradictions, incorporates its own productive negativity, and often flourishes by thinking "against itself." Dialectic of Pop sings the praises of pop as a constitutively impure form resulting from the encounter between industrial production and the human predilection for song, and diagnoses the prospects for twenty-first century pop as it continues to adapt to ever-changing technological mediations.
Author : Richard Levins
Release : 1987-03-15
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 313/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Dialectical Biologist by : Richard Levins
Download or read book The Dialectical Biologist written by Richard Levins. This book was released on 1987-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choose sides. The Dialectical Biologist explores this political nature of scientific inquiry, advancing its argument within the framework of Marxist dialectic. These essays stress the concepts of continual change and codetermination between organism and environment, part and whole, structure and process, science and politics. Throughout, this book questions our accepted definitions and biases, showing the self-reflective nature of scientific activity within society.
