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Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (Postdigital Science and Education) by Michael A. Peters, Petar Jandrić, Sarah Hayes, Sarah Hayes is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (Postdigital Science and Education) about?

The book presents a cross-disciplinary overview of critical issues at the intersections of biology, information, and society. Based on theories of bioinformationalism, viral modernity, the postdigital condition, and others, this book explores two inter-related questions: Which new knowledge ecologies are emerging? Which philosophies and research approaches do they require? The book argues that the 20th century focus on machinery needs to be replaced, at least partially, by a focus on a better understanding of living systems and their interactions with technology at all scales – from viruses, through to human beings, to the Earth’s ecosystem. This change of direction cannot be made by a simple relocation of focus and/or funding from one discipline to another. In our age of the Anthropocene, (human and planetary) biology cannot be thought of without (digital) technology and society. Today’s curious bioinformational mix of blurred and messy relationships between physics and biology, old and new media, humanism and posthumanism, knowledge capitalism and bio-informational capitalism defines the postdigital condition and creates new knowledge ecologies. The book presents scholarly resear

Who reads Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (Postdigital Science and Education)?

Author

Michael A. Peters, Petar Jandrić, Sarah Hayes, Sarah Hayes

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030950064

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Education, Philosophy