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Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

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zbornik

Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

Vrsta urednička knjiga
Tip zbornik
Godina 2022
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-95006-4
ISSN 2662-5326
EISSN 2662-5334
Status objavljeno

Sažetak

The book presents a cross-disciplinary overview of critical issues at the intersections of biology and information science. Based on theories of bioinformationalism, viral modernity, the postdigital condition, and others, this book explores two inter-related questions: Which new knowledge ecologies are emerging? Which philosophies and research approaches do they require?

The book argues that the 20th century focus on machinery needs replaced, at least partially, by a focus on a better understanding of living systems and their interactions with technology at all scales – from viruses, through human beings, to Earth’s ecosystem. This change of direction cannot be made by simple relocation of focus and/or funding from one discipline to another. In our age of the Anthropocene, (human and planetary) biology cannot be thought of without (digital) technology. Today’s curious bioinformational mix of blurred and messy relationships between physics and biology, old and new media, humanism and posthumanism, knowledge capitalism and bio-informational capitalism defines the postdigital condition and creates new knowledge ecologies.

Ključne riječi

Postdigital; Bioinformation; Biopolitics; Bioinformational Capitalism; Viral Modernity; Philosophy; Epistemology; Environment; Anthropocene; Big Data; Artificial Intelligence; Covid-19; Openness; Knowledge Socialism