Robert Hassan
Relevant books
– Analog (Publishing pending, 2021)
– The Age of Digitality: A Post-Modern Marxism for the Practice of Digital Life (University of Westminster Press, 2019)
– The Philosophy of Media (Routledge, 2017)
– The Age of Distraction (Transaction Publishers, 2012)
Relevant articles
– A Month at Sea with No Technology Taught Me How to Steal My Life Back from My Phone
“…the sharpening focus upon technical efficiency, leading to digitality and speed in the service of profit, has meant a narrowness of vision regarding what innovation in science and technology make possible. This is not only a threat to our subjective self, where what we can be is continually constricted by the essential paucity of what digital logic can enable, but more practically, a threat to democracy also.”
“A global and networked ethic is possible.We also have little choice in the matter. We have that deepest of all responsibilities – to our children – compelling us to try.The nature and function of computing in our lives constitutes the ethical imperative in our postmodern age. Confronting digitality is possible only when we recognize that our analogue essence has its real home only in nature.”
(Philosophy of Media, 2017)
Robert Hassan is Associate Professor of Media and Communications and Head of the Media Program at the University of Melbourne. He writes extensively at the points of convergence between politics, media, time, and technology. His most recent book is Philosophy of Media (Routledge, 2017). He is currently writing Digitality, which will appear in 2019.
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