Front Cover; Digital Materialism; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. DOM (Domestication); Materiality: Aesthetics and Anaesthetics; DATA; Natural Data; 2. ABS (Abstraction); 3. AUT (Automation); Use Case: Gramophone; Use Case: ATM; Speed-up of the Stripped Down: Anaesthetics; Chronocracy; History as a Product; Electrification; Regulation; 4. DIG (Digitization); Digital and Analogue; The Status of Knowledge; 5. FAB (Fabrication); Two Technical Images: Higgs Boson and the HUDF; Higgs Boson: The God Particle; HUDF; 6. MAT (Materialization)
Persistence of Anthropomorphism: PoliticsMedia Ecology; New Materialism; Structural Challenges to Technological Emancipation: Socially Necessary Discipline; 7. EMA (Emancipation); Freedom from Truth, Freedom for Facts; Let a Million Simulated Cybersyns Bloom!; Postscript; References; Index
Summary
Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. This short book sets out a methodical materialist understanding of digital technologies, where they come from, how they work, and what they do
