Regimes of Description - by John Bender & Michael Marrinan Paperback

Highlights

• Regimes of Description responds to the perception--however imprecise--that forms of knowledge in every sector of contemporary culture are being fundamentally reshaped by the digital revolution: music, speech, engineering diagrams, weather reports, works of visual art, even the words most of us write are now subject, as Lyotard points out in The Inhuman, to a logic of the bit, the elemental unit of electronic information.
• About the Author: John Bender is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of the Humanities Center, at Stanford University.
• 304 Pages
• Philosophy, Epistemology