Skip to main content
Taylor & Francis Group Logo
    Advanced Search

    Click here to search products using title name,author name and keywords.

    • Login
    • Hi, User  
      • Your Account
      • Logout
      Advanced Search

      Click here to search products using title name,author name and keywords.

      Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages.

      Book

      Against Nature
      loading

      Book

      Against Nature

      DOI link for Against Nature

      Against Nature book

      The Metaphysics of Information Systems

      Against Nature

      DOI link for Against Nature

      Against Nature book

      The Metaphysics of Information Systems
      ByDavid Kreps
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 25 May 2018
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351233828
      Pages 116
      eBook ISBN 9781351233828
      Subjects Humanities, Social Sciences
      Share
      Share

      Get Citation

      Kreps, D. (2018). Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351233828

      ABSTRACT

      This book questions the nature of the business and social information systems so ubiquitous in contemporary life. Linking positivism, individualism, and market-fundamentalist economics at the root of these systems, it critiques the philosophical ground of this triumvirate as fundamentally against nature. Connecting counter-philosophies of the subject as a natural part of existence, with more collectivist and ecological economics, it 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 existential threat of climate change. As such, it will appeal to philosophers, social theorists, and scholars of science and technology studies with interests in the environment and ecology, as well as those working in the field of information systems.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|10 pages

      A transdisciplinary approach

      chapter 2|17 pages

      The problem with digital

      chapter 3|25 pages

      The future does not exist

      chapter 4|29 pages

      The world in a new light

      chapter 5|26 pages

      A theoretical manifesto for Green IT

      T&F logoTaylor & Francis Group logo
      • Policies
        • Privacy Policy
        • Terms & Conditions
        • Cookie Policy
        • Privacy Policy
        • Terms & Conditions
        • Cookie Policy
      • Journals
        • Taylor & Francis Online
        • CogentOA
        • Taylor & Francis Online
        • CogentOA
      • Corporate
        • Taylor & Francis Group
        • Taylor & Francis Group
        • Taylor & Francis Group
        • Taylor & Francis Group
      • Help & Contact
        • Students/Researchers
        • Librarians/Institutions
        • Students/Researchers
        • Librarians/Institutions
      • Connect with us

      Connect with us

      Registered in England & Wales No. 3099067
      5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG © 2022 Informa UK Limited