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The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World

The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World


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You are a four-dimensional human. A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring your inner life, increasingly coaxing you from your three-dimensional physical boundaries into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, in which there is no stable border between your digital experience and your corporeal one. But what does it feel like to be four-dimensional? How do digital technologies influence the rhythms of our thoughts, the style and tilt of our consciousness? Laurence Scott-hailed as a "New Generation Thinker" by the BBC-shows how four-dimensional life is dramatically changing us: by redefining our social lives and by extending the limits of our presence in the world. Blending tech-philosophy and high-low erudition, Scott stands with a rising generation of social critics hoping to understand our new digital landscape. His virtuosic debut is a revelatory and original exploration of life in the digital age.

About the Author :
Laurence Scott's essays and criticism have appeared in the Guardian, the Financial Times, and the London Review of Books, among other publications. A lecturer in English and creative writing, he lives in London.

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"Clever, allusive, with a capacious sense of humor, the book sizzles with intelligence.…it’s hard not to be charmed." "With his joyful phrase-making and sharp eye for the follies and absurdities of wired life, Scott would be the perfect investigator to report back on what it feels like to be…uploaded." "Scott’s writing is exceptionally fine, and his cultural range extravagant…An astounding debut." "A probing and elegant meditation on the digital world’s ‘ways of being.’ Beyond the lovely precision of its diction and companionable voice, it is notable for its courage to write from inside the ambiguities and confusions of online life, to resist the easy pleasures of summary judgement." "Adds immeasurably to the burgeoning literature on what social media do to our innermost lives, relationships, and stance towards the world. [Scott] doesn’t travel on main roads—the familiar worries about technology—but rather on hidden byways marked by imagination and metaphor, where data cannot follow." "[The Four-Dimensional Human] is carefully crafted and eloquently written…A valuable book that brings a fresh perspective to the topic of life online and offline." "[A] rich phenomenology of living in the digital age and its radical reshaping of fundamental human experiences...Scott’s sharp eye for irony and great wit make this debut a lively contribution to the conversation about the effects of the Internet on society." "[An] elegant meditation." "Witty, intellectual."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780393353075
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publisher Imprint: WW Norton & Co
  • Height: 211 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 220 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0393353079
  • Publisher Date: 09 Aug 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Ways of Being in the Digital World
  • Width: 142 mm


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