M. Beatrice Fazi: Contingent Computation

Cover: 9781538147061 | Contingent Computation | M. Beatrice Fazi | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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In Contingent Computation, M. Beatrice Fazi offers a new theoretical perspective through which we can engage philosophically with computing. The book proves that aesthetics is a viable mode of investigating contemporary computational systems. It does so by advancing an original conception of computational aesthetics that does not just concern art made by or with computers, but rather the modes of being and becoming of computational processes. Contingent Computation mobilises the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead in order to address aesthetics as an ontological study of the generative potential of reality. Through a novel philosophical reading of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and of Turing’s notion of incomputability, Fazi finds this potential at the formal heart of computational systems, and argues that computation is a process of determining indeterminacy. This indeterminacy, which is central to computational systems, does not contradict their functionality. Instead, it drives their very operation, albeit in a manner that might not always fit with the instrumental, representational and cognitivist purposes that we have assigned to computing.

Über den Autor

M. Beatrice Fazi is Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex. Her primary areas of expertise are the philosophy of computation, the philosophy of technology and the emerging field of media philosophy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I Aesthetics
1. Continuity versus Discreteness
2. Computation
3. Processes
Part II Abstraction
4. Computational Idealism
5. Axiomatics
6. Limits and Potential
Part III Experience
7. Computational Empiricism
8. Factuality
9. Actuality
Conclusion

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Media Philosophy
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781538147061
ISBN-10:	1538147068
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Fazi, M. Beatrice
Hersteller:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Media Philosophy
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	M. Beatrice Fazi
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.10.2020
Gewicht:	0,408 kg