Is the informational world of smartphones and social media changing who we are and how we relate to others and the environment? Are we becoming informational organisms or 'inforgs', deeply enmeshed in a globe-spanning 'infosphere'? Luciano Floridi thinks so. In this exciting and…
Investigating the information society
by Reynolds, Paul, Maples, Wendy, Mackay, Hugh, Open University
Stiegler argues that we must first acknowledge our era as one of fundamental disruption and detachment--with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it giving rise to the loss of reason and to the loss of the reason for living. He contends that we are…
In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everythi…