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oapen-20.500.12657-315692023-01-31T18:46:02Z The Digital Condition Wilkie, Rob Media and Communications Digital commodities information network digital culture studies William gibson spectrality digital revolution antonio negri culture jacques derrida Capitalism Globalization Karl Marx Logic bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies 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. 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-01-27 15:06:52 2020-04-01T13:40:05Z 2020-04-01T13:40:05Z 2011 book 626991 OCN: 760884549 9780823234226 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31569 eng application/pdf n/a 626991.pdf Fordham University Press 10.26530/oapen_626991 100597 10.26530/oapen_626991 f501c751-7a51-484b-b90a-ed0912c4e53f b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780823234226 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100597 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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