Scripted Culture - Digitalization and the Cultural Public Sphere

Ruedi Widmer, Ines Kleesattel

ISBN 10: 3035800855 / ISBN 13: 9783035800852

Published by Diaphanes AG, CH, 2018

About this Item

When we look at the cultural public sphere through the lens of digitalization, a paradoxical picture emerges. In some ways, the digital age seems to have brought the goals of the Enlightenment to their fullest fruition, giving us boundless and instantaneous access to every kind of knowledge and art. But the internet and its platforms also frequently bring chaos, immersing us in a sphere of often unverified information whose scope is unimaginable. This book takes a tour through the current debates on digital culture, bringing together a wide array of perspectives from aesthetic theory, cultural studies, electronic media, and the arts.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scripted Culture - Digitalization and the Cultural Public Sphere
• Publisher: Diaphanes AG, CH
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3035800855
• ISBN 13: 9783035800852
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 316 grams

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Synopsis

When we look at the cultural public sphere through the lens of digitalization, a paradoxical picture emerges. In some ways, the digital age seems to have brought the goals of the Enlightenment to their fullest fruition, giving us boundless and instantaneous access to every kind of knowledge and art. But the internet and its platforms also frequently bring chaos, immersing us in a sphere of often unverified information whose scope is unimaginable. This book takes a tour through the current debates on digital culture, bringing together a wide array of perspectives from aesthetic theory, cultural studies, electronic media, and the arts.

About the Author

Ines Kleesattel is lecturer in art history and cultural theory at the Zurich University of the Arts and coeditor of The Future is Unwritten, also published by Diaphanes. Ruedi Widmer is program manager of journalism at the Zurich University of the Arts and editor, most recently, of Holy Shit, also published by Diaphanes.