Networkologies: A Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age - A Manifesto

by Christopher Vitale

Overview

Networkologies is the first text to develop an entire new philosophy based upon networks. While many contemporary texts on networks have presented critiques or analyses of network formations in our world, this book is the first to develop an entirely new worldview based on the structure of networks themselves. From global capitalism to artificial minds, evolutionary biology to quantum physics, networks are our future. Networkologies presents us with a new image of thought for our hyperconnected age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780992389
Publisher:	Zer0 Books
Publication date:	09/26/2014
Pages:	271
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Christopher Vitale is Assistant Professor of Critical/Visual and Media Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He is a founding member of the MA Program in Media Studies at Pratt, and has taught at UC Berkeley, NYU, Pace University, and Hunter College (CUNY).

Table of Contents

Note to the Reader vii

Acknowledgments ix

Part 1 Introduction to a Philosophy of Networks 1

Living in a Networked Age 2

Networks - and Philosophy? 7

Building on the Science and Mathematics of Networks 11

What is a Network? A Brief Primer 16

Complexity, Emergence, and Robustness 21

The Brain as a Model for Philosophy: Artificial Neural Networks and Beyond 27

Network Dynamics: States, Processes, and Tendencies 38

Networkological Description: Immanence, Relation, Refraction, Emergence, and Robustness 49

Network Economies: Networked Models of Value, Meaning, and Experience 55

Sync: Understanding, Knowledge, and Thinking 64

Evolving Robustness: From Evolution to Liberation 69

Beyond the So-Called "Death of Philosophy" 76

Networkological Critique: Networks Beyond Overreification and Cancerous Reproduction 85

From Networks to Netlogics: Diagramming the World 104

Radical Relational Emergentism: Philosophy as Refractive Crystallography 110

Part 2 Networkologies: A Manifesto 115

Nodes: access

Science

Mathematics

Image of thought

Process

Complexity

Emergence

Relation

Fractality

Holography

Spacetime

Immanence

Principles

Experience

Realities

(un)limits

Semiotics

Mediology

Machinology

Value

Symbolic economies

Robustness

Practics

Metaleptics

Sync

Understanding

Evolution

Meta-evolution

Hyper-evolution

Thinking

Critique

De construction

Reconstruction

Past-foundation

Refraction

Diagram

Difference

Distributedness

Histriography

Psychology

Panpsychism

Liberation

Commons

Oppression

Economics

Political economy

Politics

Transviduality

Post-anarchism

Pantheism

Theophanic post-theology

Erotics

Praxis

Aesthetics

Nothing

Philosophy

Meta-philosophy

History of philosophy

Beginning

Dream

Reference Matter 220