Table of Contents
Foreword, John Durham Peters; Digital Existence: An Introduction, Amanda Lagerkvist PART I: Media Ontologies 1 Irremediability: On the Very Concept of Digital Ontology, Justin Clemens and Adam Nash 2 Umwelt and Individuation: Digital Signals and Technical Being, Jonas Andersson Schwarz 3 Thrownness, Vulnerability, Care: A Feminist Ontology for the Digital Age,Margaret Schwartz 4 Digital Unworld(s): The Bielefeld Conspiracy, Yvette Granata PART II: Being human: Extension, Exposure and Ethics 5 You Have Been Tagged: Magical Incantations, Digital Incarnations and Extended Selves, Paul Frosh 6 Surveillance, Sensors, and Knowledge Through the Machine, Sun-ha Hong 7 Social Media and the Care of the Self, Ganaele Langlois 8 The Ethics of Digital Being: Vulnerability, Invulnerability, and ‘Dangerous Surprises’, Vincent Miller PART III: Transcendence: Beyond life, death and the human 9 The Internet is Always Awake: Sensations, Sounds and Silences of the Digital Grave, Amanda Lagerkvist 10 Digital Rituals and the Quest for Existential Security, Johanna Sumiala 11 Cybernetic Animism: Non-Human Personhood and the Internet, Devin Proctor 12 Death in Life and Life in Death: Forms and Fates of the Human, Connor Graham and Alfred Montoya; Afterword, Charles M. Ess