Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems
Autor David Krepsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2020
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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
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 UndergraduateCuprins
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
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
‘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