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Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Takes a distinctly philosophically-oriented approach to a topic of strong contemporary interest

  • Posits a novel new interpretation of the evolving role of technology and media within human myth-making

  • Compiles the work of experts in the field from across the globe

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    • Alberto Romele, Enrico Terrone
    Pages 1-9
  3. Digital Media as Recording Devices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. From Capital to Documediality

      • Maurizio Ferraris
      Pages 31-50
    3. Recording the Web

      • Janne Nielsen
      Pages 51-76
  4. Consequences of Digital Recording

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
    2. Trust, Extended Memories and Social Media

      • Jacopo Domenicucci
      Pages 119-142
    3. Digital Eternities

      • Fanny Georges, Virginie Julliard
      Pages 143-163
  5. Digital Media Beyond Recording

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
    2. The Unbearable Lightness (and Heaviness) of Being Digital

      • Stacey O’Neal Irwin
      Pages 185-203
    3. A Philosophy of “Doing” in the Digital

      • Stefano Gualeni
      Pages 225-255
    4. From Registration to Emagination

      • Alberto Romele
      Pages 257-273
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 275-278

About this book

This book uses the conceptual tools of philosophy to shed light on digital media and on the way in which they bear upon our existence. At the turn of the century, the rise of digital media significantly changed our world. The digitizing of traditional media has extraordinarily increased the circulation of texts, sound, and images. Digital media have also widened our horizons and altered our relationship with others and with ourselves.

Information production and communication are still undoubtedly significant aspects of digital media and life. Recently, however, recording, registration and keeping track have taken the upper hand in both online practices and the imaginaries related to them. The essays in this book therefore focus primarily on the idea that digital media involve a significant overlapping between communication and recording. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Université Catholique de Lille, Lille, France

    Alberto Romele

  • Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Enrico Terrone

About the editors

Alberto Romele is Postdoctoral Researcher at the ETHICS Lab of the Lille Catholic University, France. He has previously been Assistant Professor in modern and contemporary philosophy at the University of Burgundy, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Portuguese national research agency (FCT) at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto. His research focuses on hermeneutics, philosophy of technology, and theories of the digital.

Enrico Terrone is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Università di Torino, Italy, and Associate Researcher at Collège d’études mondiales, Paris, France. He was awarded a Fellowship in Bonn (Käte Hamburger Kolleg) and one in Paris (FMSH – Gerda Henkel Stiftung). His work ranges aesthetics, social ontology and philosophy of technology. His primary area of research is philosophy of film.

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