Contents

Acknowledgements viii

1 Introduction ι

2 From culture industry to computational industries 23

3 The softwarization of society 53

4 Computational ontologies 89

5 The reification of everyday life 121

6 Computational aesthetics 149

7 Critical praxis and the computational 169

8 Towards a critical theory of the digital 195

Notes 215

Bibliography 225

Index 249