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Book 128 of 207: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

Romele, Alberto

 
9780367353667: Digital Hermeneutics (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0367353660 ISBN 13: 9780367353667
Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This is the first monograph to develop a hermeneutic approach to the digital―as both a technological milieu and a cultural phenomenon. While philosophical in its orientation, the book covers a wide body of literature across science and technology studies, media studies, digital humanities, digital sociology, cognitive science, and the study of artificial intelligence.

In the first part of the book, the author formulates an epistemological thesis according to which the “virtual never ended.” Although the frontiers between the real and the virtual are certainly more porous today, they still exist and endure. In the book’s second part, the author offers an ontological reflection on emerging digital technologies as “imaginative machines.” He introduces the concept of emagination, arguing that human schematizations are always externalized into technologies, and that human imagination has its analog in the digital dynamics of articulation between databases and algorithms. The author takes an ethical and political stance in the concluding chapter. He resorts to the notion of "digital habitus" for claiming that within the digital we are repeatedly being reconducted to an oversimplified image and understanding of ourselves.

Digital Hermeneutics will be of interest to scholars across a wide range of disciplines, including those working on philosophy of technology, hermeneutics, science and technology studies, media studies, and the digital humanities.

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About the Author

Alberto Romele is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Technology at Lille Catholic University, France. He is the co-editor of Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media (2018).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367353660
ISBN 13 
9780367353667
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
176