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Berry D.. Critical Theory and the Digital. New York: Bloomsbury,2014. — 272 p.. 2014

This book has been written in a number of places, and even between places - in a plethora of planes, trains, cafes, airports, offices and libraries. Indeed, it has been created in the very frantic disorientation of computational society that this book argues that critical theory must address today. My appreciation of charging points, free Wi-Fi, 3G/4G networks and access to good coffee has also been suitably heightened. Although I note that Java Cafe, in St Hanshaugan, Oslo, which shuns all these contrivances for the luxury of singularly great coffee, has been a welcome retreat for providing a space disconnected from the always-on digital world.

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Why study the digital and software?
From culture industry to computational industries
In this chapter I want to introduce some of the basic ideas that were developed by the Frankfurt School and to give a brief history of the Institute for Social Research, before outlining how their main concepts will be discussed in relation to the digital.
Critical theory
The digital and critical theory
The Softwarization of society
If we confront sociology's most important question: what is society? we could say that we can no longer straightforwardly describe society as a thing.
The cyberstructure
Financialization and software
Computational ontologies
This chapter explores the question of ontology, particularly that presup­posed by Cartesian ontology, which divides the world between res cogitans and res extensa, that is, spirit and matter.
Negative dialectics and fundamental ontology
Glitch ontology
The reification of everyday life
From its early days as a mechanism used to perform data processing, the digital is becoming the de facto medium for transmitting information, communicating and for sharing social life.
Reification technologies: Web bugs, beacons and trackers
Computational aesthetics
For the critical theorists, as capital becomes increasingly concentrated and the state and economy become ever more interdependent, traditional political economy becomes insufficient as an explanatory framework for understanding the new forms of emerging capitalism.
The New Aesthetic
Code aesthetics
Critical praxis and the computational
In this chapter, I look at the implications of the distinction between reason and emancipation for both material and intellectual culture in relation to the digital.
Black boxes
Reading the digital
Towards a critical theory of the digital
In this final chapter I want to begin to draw together the constellation of con­cepts and ideas that have been explored throughout the book.
Boredom and the gigantic
Exhaustive media
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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