1st Edition

Digital Matters The Theory and Culture of the Matrix

By Jan Harris, Paul Taylor Copyright 2005
224 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Analyzing the complex interaction between the material and immaterial aspects of new digital technologies, this book draws upon a mix of theoretical approaches (including sociology, media theory, cultural studies and technological philosophy), to suggest that the ‘Matrix’ of science fiction and Hollywood is simply an extreme example of how contemporary technological society enframes and... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: Theorizing the Im/Material Matrix: Technics Triumphant  1. Jacques Ellul's La Technique  2. Martin Heidegger and Enframement  3. Friedrich Kittler: Network 2000?  4. The Commodified Media Matrix  Part 2: Living in the Digital Matrix - The Cultural Perspective  5. Urban Matrix Matters  6. Social Matters in the Matrix  7. Cyberspatial Matrix Matters  8. Rewiring the Matrix

Biography

Jan Ll. Harris is a researcher at the University of Salford’s Institute of Social and Cultural Research. His work concerns the intersection of continental philosophy and the philosophy of technology, and the cultural impact of digital technology.

Paul A. Taylor is a senior lecturer in Communications Theory at the Institute of Communication Studies, Unviersity of Leeds. His research interests focus upon digital culture and critical theories of the mass media. He is the author of Hackers: Crime in the Digital Sublime (Routledge, 1999) and co-author of Hactivists: Rebels with a Cause? (Routledge, 2004).