All and nothing : a pandemonium of digital world destruction

104 Pages·2017·0.546 MB·English

by  Dirk Höfer, Martin Burckhardt, Erik Butler

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UNTIMELY MEDITATIONS
1. THE AGONY OF EROS
Byung-Chul Han
2. ON HITLER’S MEIN KAMPF: THE POETICS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM
Albrecht Koschorke
3. IN THE SWARM: DIGITAL PROSPECTS
Byung-Chul Han
4. THE TERROR OF EVIDENCE
Marcus Steinweg
5. ALL AND NOTHING: A DIGITAL APOCALYPSE
Martin Burckhardt and Dirk Höfer
6. POSITIVE NIHILISM: MY CONFRONTATION WITH HEIDEGGER
Hartmut Lange
7. INCONSISTENCIES
Marcus Steinweg
8. SHANZHAI: DECONSTRUCTION IN CHINESE
Byung-Chul Han
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This translation © 2017 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Originally published as Alles und Nichts: Ein Pandämonium digitaler Weltvernichtung
in the series Fröhliche Wissenschaft by Matthes & Seitz Berlin: © Matthes & Seitz
Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 2015. All rights reserved.
The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any
electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information
storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.
This book was set in PF DIN Text Pro by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited. Printed
and bound in the United States of America.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Burckhardt, Martin. | Höfer, Dirk, 1956- | Butler, Erik, 1971- translator.
Title: All and nothing : a pandemonium of digital world destruction / Martin
Burckhardt and Dirk Höfer ; translated by Erik Butler.
Other titles: Alles und Nichts. English
Description: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2017] | Series: Untimely meditations |
Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017002616 | ISBN 9780262534253 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Digital media. | Information society. | Philosophy and civilization. |
Nothing (Philosophy)
Classification: LCC B54 .B8713 2017 | DDC 100--dc23 LC record available at
https://lccn.loc.gov/2017002616
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CONTENTS
1 REVELATION 1
2 THE APOCALYPSE OF SIGNS 13
3 THE ENGINE ROOM OF THE DIGITAL 21
4 DIGITAL PLAGUES 33
5 THE NEW JERUSALEM 47
6 GENESIS 2.0 59
7 EXPULSION INTO PARADISE 69
8 THE WORLD OF ANGELS 81
9 A WORLD WITH NO BEYOND 89

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