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Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems

Autor David Kreps
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2020
This book questions the nature of the business and social information systems so ubiquitous in contemporary life. Linking positivism, individualism, and market-fundamentalist economics at the root of these systems, it critiques the philosophical ground of this triumvirate as fundamentally against nature. Connecting counter-philosophies of the subject as a natural part of existence, with more collectivist and ecological economics, it presents a historical critique of the development of the academic field of information systems and offers a complex view of the nature of Nature through which we might reshape our approach to technology and to our economies to overcome the existential threat of climate change. As such, it will appeal to philosophers, social theorists, and scholars of science and technology studies with interests in the environment and ecology, as well as those working in the field of information systems.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367607012
ISBN-10: 0367607018
Pagini: 116
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

List of Tables


1. A Transdisciplinary Approach


2. The Problem with Digital


3. The Future Does Not Exist


4. The World in a New Light


5. A Theoretical Manifesto for Green IT


Index

Notă biografică

David Kreps is Lecturer in the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics at NUI Galway, Ireland. His books include Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence; Technology and Intimacy: Choice or Coercion; and Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment.

Recenzii

‘Kreps brilliantly demonstrates how strongly IS (information systems) research has been and still is influenced by a positivist view of the world … Instead, Kreps proposes to borrow from Bergson’s and Whitehead’s process-relational philosophy, from moral philosophy and from complexity theory, to claim that the libertarian argument for the neoliberal digital capitalist society runs counter to the reality of the natural world of which we are a part.’ – Frantz Rowe, European Journal of Information Systems
‘Drawing inspiration from the sensitive experience of our social existence and from a more inclusive and ecological conception of the economy, this book presents a historical critique of the development of the academic field of information systems and offers an analytical perspective on our relationship with nature from which we could rethink the question of technology to overcome the threat that climate change poses to our biosphere.’ – Dominique Desbois, Terminal

Descriere

This book questions the nature of the business and social information systems so ubiquitous in contemporary life. Linking positivism, individualism, and market-fundamentalist economics at the root of these systems, it critiques the philosophical ground of this triumvirate as fundamentally against nature. Connecting counter-philosophies of the su