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Available from  ontos verlag Frankfurt, Germany and online bookstores such as  Amazon under the title 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  ontoslink. Also at  Google Book Search where extensive parts can be read. See also the review by Val Dusek of the University of New Hampshire in  Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010.06.11.

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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