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Structured around objects, relations, and logics, it develops accounts of digital objects’ genesis and ontologies, then examines network space and technical systems’ time. It further links logic to objecthood and logic to temporality, framing these questions through scale, orders of magnitude, and preindividual milieus that reshape technological artifacts and their socio-political conditions.","ON THE EXISTENCE OF DIGITAL OBJECTS  \nELECTRONIC MEDIATIONS  \nSeries Editors: N. Katherine Hayles, Peter Krapp, Rita Raley, and Samuel Weber  \nFounding Editor: Mark Poster  \n48 On the Existence of Digital Objects  \nYUK HUI  \n47 How to Talk about Videogames  \nIAN BOGOST  \n46 A Geology of Media  \nJUSSI PARIKKA  \n45 World Projects: Global Information before World War I MARKUS KRAJEWSKI  \n44 Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound LORI EMERSON  \n43 Nauman Reiterated  \nJANET KRAYNAK  \n42 Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era  \nN. KATHERINE HAYLES AND JESSICA PRESSMAN, EDITORS  \n41 Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World  \nULISES ALI MEJIAS  \n40 Summa Technologiae  \nSTANISŁAW LEM  \n39 Digital Memory and the Archive  \nWOLFGANG ERNST  \n38 How to Do Things with Videogames  \nIAN BOGOST  \n37 Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture PETER KRAPP  \n36 Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture PATRICK CROGAN  \n35 Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations  \nROBERTO SIMANOWSKI  \n34 Vilém Flusser: An Introduction  \nANKE FINGER, RAINER GULDIN, AND GUSTAVO BERNARDO (continued on page 315)  \nOn the Existence of Digital Objects  \n. . . .  \nYuk Hui  \nForeword by Bernard Stiegler  \nELECTRONIC MEDIATIONS 48  \nUniversity of Minnesota Press  \nMinneapolis London  \nCopyright 2016 by the Regents ofthe University of Minnesota  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.  \nPublished by the University of Minnesota Press  \n111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290  \nMinneapolis, MN 55401-2520  \n[http://www.upress.umn.edu](http://www.upress.umn.edu)  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nHui, Yuk.  \nOn the existence of digital objects / Yuk Hui; foreword by Bernard Stiegler.  \n(Electronic mediations; 48)  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 978-0-8166-9890-5 (hc)—ISBN 978-0-8166-9891-2 (pb)  \n1. Digital electronics—Philosophy. 2. Digital electronics—Technological innovations. I. Title. TK7868.D5H835 2016  \n005.701—dc23 2015008726  \nPrinted in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer.  \n21 20 19 18 17 16 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nContents  \nForeword vii  \nBernard Stiegler  \nIntroduction: Outline of an Investigation on Digital Objects 1  \nPart I. Objects  \n1. The Genesis of Digital Objects 47  \n2. Digital Objects and Ontologies 75  \nPart II. Relations  \n3. The Space of Networks 109  \n4. The Time of Technical Systems 151  \nPart III. Logics  \n5. Logic and Object 189  \n6. Logic and Time 221  \nAcknowledgments 253  \nNotes 255  \nBibliography 279  \nIndex 295  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nForeword  \nBernard Stiegler  \nTranslated by Daniel Ross  \nThismosookhankbsy Yuto theksHcoupi ise ofnheexcauptiohor’nsaql wueskon ms anadyhweayresso,fourrcees  \nhe manages to incorporate into his thinking, which he does with unusual rigor and an invaluable openness of mind and spirit. Ouverture d’esprit should in this case be taken literally: Yuk Hui practices this openness that is the life of the mind, and he does so methodically, via notions of relations of scale and orders of magnitude. He convokes analytical and continental philosophy, cognitivism and phenomenology, and computational theory alongside the human and social sciences, showing that the relations and nonrelations between them are to a large extent the result ofunconceptualized questions of scale. His is a most generous form of thinking: situating philosophies and theorems on scales that relate them in terms of order of magnitude allows room for hospitality toward all manner of rigorous and original thinking.  \nOne might be tempted to see in such a pr","cbCaikH4TF0acl2H","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikH4TF0acl2H","pdf",2403352,4,1,332,"English","en",105,"# Foreword\n# Introduction: Outline of an Investigation on Digital Objects\n# Part I. Objects\n## The Genesis of Digital Objects\n## Digital Objects and Ontologies\n# Part II. Relations\n## The Space of Networks\n## The Time of Technical Systems\n# Part III. 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