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To what extent is our time characterised by the 'digital'? Does it announce a bright new age of technological progress, or is it not much more than a marketing tag for manufacturers? What is clear is that much of the cultural theory we have so far accumulated is showing signs of strain as it struggles to cope with the rapid global dynamics of the 'wired world'. This book offers a timely intellectual strategy that may help us comprehend the contradictions and apparent paradoxes of our immediate cultural climate. Using the metaphor of an organic membrane to show how things can be both separate and connected The Postdigital Membrane explores the triad of imagination, technology and desire as they play upon each other, and us. In doing so it tries to offer fresh insights into the deeper problems of consciousness, reality and human being, in particular the emerging consciousness of the postdigital age.
Front Cover -- Preliminaries -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section One -- PROPOSITION -- Why do we have technology? -- Technology removes obstacles to desires -- What we still want -- Why do we transform the world and ourselves? -- The imaginative imperative -- "If the software doesn't meet the spec the spec is wrong" -- Myths of order from confusion -- Speaking as the Machine demands -- Generating dissonant patterns of interferenc -- Harmonising imaginations -- Indulging one's desires in the hope of satisfying them is like trying to extinguish a fire by pouring petrol over it. -- Out of time -- Technological meanings are unstable -- What if technology removed all constraint on our desire? -- Everything on demand -- The future never arrives -- Neophobia -- Using pleasure to regulate pleasure -- Technology, like imagination, has drawbacks as well as advantages. -- Changed by thought -- Technology as it is perceived -- Technology as a membrane -- Technology is tangible imagination -- Imagination, technology, and desire -- Section Two -- PROPOSITION -- Thoughtful marks -- Thoughts are not confined to the mind -- Beyond Embodiment -- Compelling fictions become indices of real behaviour -- Where are we then? -- Subjectivity and objectivity -- The 'boxed body' fallacy -- The mirror as mind -- Things are made up of their consequences (and other things) -- Any consequence attributable to a thing is a constituent of the thing. -- Our awareness of a thing is part of that thing -- Intelligence in representation -- Non-separate humans -- The human membrane -- Models as complex as what they model -- The cinematic membrane -- Section Three -- PROPOSITION -- Spatial amputation -- The vanishing point - the reduction of space-time -- The history machine -- temporal looping.
