Understanding digital events : Bergson, Whitehead, and the experience of the digital /
edited by David Kreps.
- 1 online resource.
- Routledge studies in science, technology and society .
This book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience. Focusing on the event-ontologies of Bergson and Whitehead's process metaphysics, it explores subjective experience and objective reality as unified 'events' in the form of concrete slabs of existence. Such slabs are temporally defined by a term or period, in which all physical-chemical processes and personal subjective experience are included. Bringing together insights from a range of different specialisms, it urges us to consider a science of nature that includes both physical and non-physical realities and, from this ontological position, draws on philosophy, media, and user experience practice to provide a new account of the technological or virtual world of today. An examination of the manner in which process philosophy may be applied to contemporary digital experience, this volume will appeal to scholars of philosophy, science and technology studies and information systems.
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Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
Events (Philosophy)
Event processing (Computer science)
PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
B105.E7
110
This book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience. Focusing on the event-ontologies of Bergson and Whitehead's process metaphysics, it explores subjective experience and objective reality as unified 'events' in the form of concrete slabs of existence. Such slabs are temporally defined by a term or period, in which all physical-chemical processes and personal subjective experience are included. Bringing together insights from a range of different specialisms, it urges us to consider a science of nature that includes both physical and non-physical realities and, from this ontological position, draws on philosophy, media, and user experience practice to provide a new account of the technological or virtual world of today. An examination of the manner in which process philosophy may be applied to contemporary digital experience, this volume will appeal to scholars of philosophy, science and technology studies and information systems.
9780429032066 0429032064 9780429628665 0429628668 9780429625381 0429625383 9780429627026 0429627025
Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
Events (Philosophy)
Event processing (Computer science)
PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
B105.E7
110