Overview

To what extent is our time characterised by the ‘digital’? Does it announce a bright new age of technological progress, or is it not much more than a marketing tag for manufacturers? What is clear is that much of the cultural theory we have so far accumulated is showing signs of strain as it struggles to cope with the global dynamics of the ‘wired world’. This book offers a timely intellectual strategy that may help us comprehend the contradictions and apparent paradoxes of our immediate cultural climate. Using the metaphor of an organic membrane to show how things can be both separate and connected, The Postdigital Membrane explores the triad of imagination, technology and desire as they play upon each other – and us. In doing so it tries to offer fresh insights into the deeper problems of intelligence, reality and being human in order to map the emerging consciousness of the postdigital age.

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Author:   Robert Pepperell ,  Michael Punt
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781841508450

ISBN 10:   1841508454
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   03 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. PROPOSITION: Technology is the tangible expression of desire motivating human imagination to modify reality 2. PROPOSITION: My awareness extends to, and consists in, those things of which I am aware 3. PROPOSITION: Histories, like predictions and superstitions, are narratives of human imagination 4. PROPOSITION: Language is a technology through which human desire is satisfied and generated 5.PROPOSITION: The distinctions between the words ‘human’ and ‘machine’, and between humans and machines, lose validity as meanings mutate in response to imagination and desire. 6. PROPOSITION: The practice of art consists in arranging matter so as to add (extra) significance to it. 7. PROPOSITION: The idea that livings things consist of organised energy is disavowed by conventional science. 8. PROPOSITION: A recording is part of what it records 9. PROPOSITION: Technology can permit limited quantities of specific human energy to be recorded, stored and consumed 10. PROPOSITION: The categories of logic, reason and the binary are absorbed and transcended in the postdigital membrane

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Robert Pepperell is a multimedia artist, musician and academic. He is the author of 'The Post-Human Condition', which is also published by Intellect Books. Michael Punt is a film-maker and writer who has published widely on digital media and film history, including a book length study of cinema technology ('Early Cinema and the Technological Imaginary').

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