Book part: Computerization always promotes centralization even as it promotes decentralization
Abstract
David Golumbia presents four reasons why he considers “hacker” groups such as Anonymous right-wing activism, states that in the regime of computation today the mathematical rationalism of Leibnitz has prevailed Voltaire’s critical rationalism, and proposes a FDA for computer technology. He doesn’t see the Internet as Habermasian “public sphere,” considers Digital Humanities a ‘perfect cyberlibertarian construct,’ bemoans the capitulation of universities to new media corporations, and calls for a balance of both modes of thinking, the hedgehog and the fox, in the digital age.
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Golumbia, David: Computerization always promotes centralization even as it promotes decentralization. In: Simanowski, Roberto: Digital Humanities and Digital Media. Conversations on politics, culture, aesthetics and literacy. London: Open Humanities Press 2016, S. 123-147. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/11915.
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title = {Computerization always promotes centralization even as it promotes decentralization},
year = 2016,
doi = {10.25969/mediarep/11915},
editor = {Simanowski, Roberto},
address = {London},
booktitle = {Digital Humanities and Digital Media. Conversations on politics, culture, aesthetics and literacy},
pages = {123--147},
publisher = {Open Humanities Press},
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author = {Golumbia, David},
title = {Computerization always promotes centralization even as it promotes decentralization},
year = 2016,
doi = {10.25969/mediarep/11915},
editor = {Simanowski, Roberto},
address = {London},
booktitle = {Digital Humanities and Digital Media. Conversations on politics, culture, aesthetics and literacy},
pages = {123--147},
publisher = {Open Humanities Press},
}
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