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4 - Realities of Our Own Contrivance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2023

Antón Barba-Kay
Antón Barba-Kay
Affiliation:
Deep Springs College, California
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I conclude by discussing the more metaphysical and existential implications of digital media, arguing that it is changing our notions of what is real, of what human connection is, and of what our highest purposes are. I present this in terms of three kinds of “ideals” that I think underlie our uses of digital technology and continue to shape our goals inasmuch as we pursue them online: the ideal of frictionlessness, the ideal of obedience, and the ideal of perfection.

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A Web of Our Own Making
The Nature of Digital Formation
 , pp. 162 - 247
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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