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Community without community in digital culture

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Community without community in digital cultureCharlie Gere.
Author:	Gere, Charlie.
Published:	New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2012.
Description:	p.cm.
Subject:	Communities.
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9781137026675 (electronic bk.)

Community without community in digital culture
Gere, Charlie.

Community without community in digital culture[electronic resource] /Charlie Gere. - New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - p.cm.

Acknowledgements -- Digitality -- The Theological Origins of the Digital -- Deconstruction, Technics and the Death of God -- Derrida, Nancy and the Digital -- Darwin after Dawkins after Derrida -- Slitting Open the Kantian Eye -- The Work of Art in the Post Age -- Non-Relational Aesthetics -- Luther Blissett -- Bartleby Off-line -- Exploding Plastic Universe -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Index --.

The word 'digital' refers to both digital data, as used in computers, and also the digits, fingers, of the hand, and thus by extension touch, which has long been a trope for connectivity, community, and participation. Thus, in its drive towards greater connectivity, our culture is digital in more than one sense, in that it increasingly encourages such contact (from the Latin, 'com', together, and 'tangere', to touch). But at the same time such technologies always involve separation, gap and distance. Community Without Community in Digital Culture suggests that networks always involve this other aspect of touch, separation, distance and gap, as a necessary concomitant of our fundamental technicity. Thus, against the prevailing presumptions that new technologies involve greater contact, relationality and community, this book proposes that they exemplify the gap inherent in touch, the 'inconceivable, small, 'infinitesimal difference'' that separates us from each other in time and space. In this such technologies are part of the history of the death of God, the loss of an overarching metaphysical framework which would bind us together in some form of relation or communion. This can be understood in terms of contingency, which has the same root as contact.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9781137026675 (electronic bk.)

Source: 583330Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

309361
Communities.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HM756 / .G47 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 302.23/1

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