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Deduktion, Induktion und Tranduktion. Über Medienästhetik und digitale Objekte

Author(s): Hui, Yuk

Abstract

This article looks at the media aesthetics of digital objects by proposing to go back to Kant's transcendental aesthetics. It starts with reflecting on the definition of data and objects and asks what would be the new status of objects after digitisation, and hence their aesthetics. The proliferation of structured data and objectification of digital entities, following the movement in AI and more recently the Semantic Web, brings us back to the old philosophical questions concerning the modes of existence of objects. This article attempts to analyse the proposed aesthetics by three processes: induction, deduction and transduction, in correspondence with the theories of Hume, Kant and Simondon and the theories of extended cognitions and external memories. The article concludes by identifying a transcendental empiricism as synthesis to understand the aesthetics of digital objects.

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Hui, Yuk: Deduktion, Induktion und Tranduktion. Über Medienästhetik und digitale Objekte. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 8 (2013), Nr. 1, S. 101-115. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/736.
@ARTICLE{Hui2013,
 author = {Hui, Yuk},
 title = {Deduktion, Induktion und Tranduktion. Über Medienästhetik und digitale Objekte},
 year = 2013,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/736},
 volume = 8,
 address = {Zürich},
 journal = {Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft},
 number = 1,
 pages = {101--115},
}
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