Against nature : the metaphysics of information systems
- Submitting institution
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University of Salford, The
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 46288
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780815377757
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Against Nature is an extended, complex, book-length piece of research interrogating in depth the philosophical underpinnings of the field of information systems. It critiques the positivism, individualism, and market-fundamentalist economics at the root of the field. Using the original texts of process philosophers Bergson and Whitehead, alongside contemporary philosophical critiques, the book presents a historical critique of the development of the academic field of information systems and offers a complex view of the nature of Nature through which we might reshape our approach to technology and to our economies to overcome the climate crisis.
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- Non-English
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