The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism

by Bernard Stiegler

Book Overview

Half a century ago Horkheimer and Adorno argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized and Westernized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was that, with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it, the developments they had discerned would be greatly accentuated and strengthened,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509529276
• ISBN13: 9781509529278
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"