The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism

by Bernard Stiegler

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Half a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was that, with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it, the developments they had discerned would be greatly accentuated, giving rise to the loss of reason and to the loss of the reason for living. Individuals are now overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of digital information and the speed of digital flows, resulting in...

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  • ISBN13 9781509529292
  • Publish Date 23 August 2019 (first published 12 July 2019)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Polity Press