Buch, Englisch, Band 60, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 495 g
Reihe: Educational Futures
A Deleuzian Approach to Information
Buch, Englisch, Band 60, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 495 g
Reihe: Educational Futures
ISBN: 978-94-6209-426-0
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
This book explores a Deleuzian way of understanding information by retracing Deleuze’s ontology of difference back to Gilbert Simondon’s concepts of transduction, metastability, and perpetual individuation as a source for Deleuze’s concept of the virtual. Although Deleuze did not address information specifically in his oeuvre, this book attempts to construct what a Deleuzian theory of information might look like as a consequence of his philosophical insights.
The reader is presented with a brief survey of information theories, capsule explanations of the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze, and a discussion on the roles of metastasis and metastability as a means of addressing the problematic known as information outside of computing regimes, and as a critique of cybernetics, informatics, and memetics. Can information be reconfigured as affirmative difference, transformed into a “nomad science,” or must it remain consigned to the realm of probabilism?