1st Edition

Understanding Digital Events Bergson, Whitehead, and the Experience of the Digital

Edited By David Kreps Copyright 2019
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

148 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Technology, Narrative, and Performance in the Social Theatre  3. Not Merely Physical  4. Event and Mind: An Expanded Bergsonian Perspective  5. From Darkness to Light: Design to Evoke the Unconscious  6. Digital Events and the Ethics of Neuro-ICT  7. Experiencing Reality Alive: Bergson and Whitehead on Engaged Experience  8. Discussion and Conclusions for the Notion of Infomateriality  Bibliography

Biography

David Kreps is Lecturer in the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at NUI Galway, Ireland. His books include This Changes Everything: ICT and Climate Change – What Can We Do?; Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems; Technology and Intimacy: Choice or Coercion; Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence; and Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment. He is an active member of the UNESCO affiliated International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and current Chair of IFIP Technical Committee 9 on ICT and Society.