Contingent Computation (eBook)

Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics

M. Beatrice Fazi (Autor)

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2018
248 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-609-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Contingent Computation 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.

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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 Godel'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.

Autor

lt;span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">M. Beatrice Fazi is Research Fellow at the Sussex Humanities Lab (University of Sussex, United Kingdom). Her primary areas of expertise are the philosophy of computation, the philosophy of technology and the emerging field of media philosophy.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Media Philosophy
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Alfred North Whitehead • computational aesthetics • computational computation • Computational Culture • Computer Science • digital aesthetics • digital humanities • Gilles Deleuze • Logic • Mathematics • Media Philosophy • Philosophy of Technology • philosphy of technology
• ISBN-10: 1-78660-609-7 / 1786606097
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78660-609-9 / 9781786606099