000 02315cam a2200277 i 4500
008 131121s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
020 _a9781441166395
040 _aSDU
050 0 0 _aHM851
_bB534 C 2014
100 1 _aBerry, David M.
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245 1 0 _aCritical theory and the digital /
_cDavid M. Berry.
300 _aix, 260 pages ;
490 0 _aCritical theory and contemporary society
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: -- AcknowledgementsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: From Culture Industry to Computational IndustriesChapter 3: The Softwarization of SocietyChapter 4: Computational OntologiesChapter 5: The Reification of Everyday LifeChapter 6: Computational AestheticsChapter 7: Critical Praxis and the ComputationalChapter 8: Towards a Critical Theory of the DigitalBibliographyEndnotesIndex.
518 _aYT2025 M09
520 _a"This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers an original analysis of the role of the digital in today's society. It rearticulates critical theory by engaging it with the challenges of the digital revolution to show how the digital is changing the ways in which we lead our politics, societies, economies, media, and even private lives. In particular, the work examines how the enlightenment values embedded within the culture and materiality of digital technology can be used to explain the changes that are occurring across society.Critical Theory and the Digital draws from the critical concepts developed by critical theorists to demonstrate how the digital needs to be understood within a dialectic of potentially democratizing and totalizing technical power. By relating critical theory to aspects of a code-based digital world and the political economy that it leads to, the book introduces the importance of the digital code in the contemporary world to researchers in the field of politics, sociology, globalization and media studies"--
650 0 _aInformation society.
650 0 _aInformation technology
_xSocial aspects.
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650 0 _aDigital media
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aCritical theory.
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650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
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650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays.
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650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
900 _a= C.1 SDU
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