| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 239 pages) |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The spirit technological -- Global networks and the materiality of immaterial labor -- Reading and writing in the digital age -- The ideology of the digital me. |
| Summary |
The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century-- developments which make up the concept of the "digital"--Has brought us to what might be the most contradictory moment in human history. The digital revolution has made it possible not only to imagine but to actually realize a world in which social inequality and poverty are vanquished. But instead these developments have led to an unprecedented level of accumulation of private profits. Rather than the end of social inequality we are witness to its global expansion. In The Digital Condition, Rob Wilkie advances a groundbreaking analysis of digital culture which argues that the digital geist--which has its genealogy in such concepts as the "body without organs," "spectrality," and "différance"--has obscured the implications of class difference with the phantom of a digital divide. |
| Note |
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Information technology -- Social aspects. |
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Digital divide.
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Digital divide. |
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Computers -- Social aspects.
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Computers -- Social aspects. |
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Information superhighway -- Social aspects.
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Information superhighway -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wilkie, Robert. Digital condition. 1st ed. New York : Fordham University Press, 2011 9780823234226 (DLC) 2011016177 (OCoLC)692292485 |
| ISBN |
9780823234240 (electronic book) |
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082323424X (electronic book) |
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9780823269006 (electronic book) |
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0823269000 (electronic book) |
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9780823234226 (electronic book) |
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0823234223 (electronic book) |
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0823241521 |
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9780823241521 |
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9780823234233 |
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0823234231 |
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