The Digital Cast of
Being
Metaphysics, Mathematics,
Cartesianism, Cybernetics, Capitalism, Communication
Michael Eldred
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The Digital Cast of Being: Metaphysics, Mathematics,
Cartesianism, Cybernetics, Capitalism, Communication 2009 Hardback
137 pp. ISBN 978-3-86838-045-3 and as an e-book from
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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.
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