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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Overture: The Idealism of Matter -- Part 1 The Virtual Never Ended -- Introduction -- 1 The Virtual Invaded the Real -- 1.1 The Semantic Theory of Information (STI) -- 1.2 Ethical, Ontological, and Technological Consequences of the STI -- 1.3 Philosophy of Information: A Hermeneutic Approach -- 2 The Real Invaded the Virtual -- 2.1 Digital Sociology, Part One -- 2.2 Intermezzo: Bruno Latour -- 2.3 Digital Sociology, Part Two -- Conclusion -- Part 2 Emagination -- Introduction -- 3 Imaginative Machines -- 3.1 Productive Imagination -- 3.2 From Imagination to Emagination -- 3.3 Emagination, Big Data, and New Algorithmic Machines -- 4 We Have Never Been Engineers -- 4.1 The General Theory of Schematization -- 4.2 Engineers vs Bricoleurs -- 4.3 Automatic Art -- Conclusion -- Finale: The Indifferent Ones -- Index.

This book develops a hermeneutic approach to the digital--as both a technological milieu and a cultural phenomenon. While philosophical in its orientation, it covers a wide body of literature across science and technology studies, media studies, digital humanities, digital sociology, cognitive science, and the study of artificial intelligence.