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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Outstanding scholarship that is at once comprehensive, relevant, provocative, and necessary." -- -Steven Wexler California State University, Northridge "Through a dense and layered study which seamlessly connects sustained philosophical readings of Plato, Kant, Heidegger, Derrida, Jameson, and Negri with a critical analysis of some of the changes resulting from technological innovation and globalization, and incisive interpretations of some of the icons of digital culture, including the iPod, post-cyber/nano-punk and films like The Matrix, Wilkie offers in his book a cutting-edge theorization of digital culture that will instantly establish him as one of the most exciting new voices working in critical and cultural theory today." -- -Peter McLaren University of California, Los Angeles "Touching on the production of knowledge in the digital age, literature, and cinema-and weaving Marx, Heidegger, Derrida, Lyotard, et al. throughout-this book is a clarion call for cultural theory: having promoted digital culture, cultural theory must return to focus on the struggle of labor and how technological development can best serve the interests of all. Highly recommended." -Choice "The Digital Condition advances a groundbreaking analysis of digital culture and argues that the digital environment has obscured the implications of class difference, changing digital reality and perception. Underlying digital culture are social and historical relations that require class analysis to explain why new realities are determined by global class inequalities. The result is a powerful guide perfect for any college-level computer issues or cultural history holding." -California Bookwatch
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Spirit Technological 2. Global Networks and the Materiality of Immaterial Labor 3. Reading and Writing in the Digital Age 4. The Ideology of the Digital Me Notes Works Cited Index
