Space and time in the networked digital world. A Kantian critical examination. Cover Image

SPAȚIUL ȘI TIMPUL ÎN LUMEA DIGITALĂ ÎN REȚEA. UN EXAMEN CRITIC KANTIAN
Space and time in the networked digital world. A Kantian critical examination.

Author(s): Constantin Vică
Subject(s): Social Philosophy
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: space; time; digital world; digital and virtual experience; Immanuel Kant; digital phenomena; transcendental idealism;

Summary/Abstract: My aim in this paper is, by porting the Kantian view on time and space into the analysis of the digital world, to show that the pre-reflective and constitutive frames of possibility and reference of reality cannot be changed by digitally mediated experiences. Space and time are not changed or reshaped by digital experiences. In fact, new digital experiences are bound to the same conditions of possibility. The newness of the digital world is expressed by the plurality, diversity and complexity of representational content which excites the human perception within the same aprioristic framework, i.e. our sensibility is not formally reshaped by digital tools we use but definitely extended. At the end, I criticize some misleading propositions and judgments about the digital world and I investigate if we can talk about algorithms as noumena.

  • Issue Year: LXIII/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 539-554
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romanian, Moldavian
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