The Rise of Procedural Digital Humanity: From Logos to Arithmos - Couverture rigide

Beckouche, Pierre

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3032128102 ISBN 13 : 9783032128102

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2026

Synopsis

This book argues that the digital revolution constitutes an anthropological turning point in human history. It examines the rise of a new procedural humanity―Homo Externatus―born from a profound cultural shift between logos, the symbolic foundation of thought grounded in language, truth, causality, and meaning, and “arithmos”, a procedural, a-semantic metaculture driven by calculation and correlation. Humanity is moving from a culture of differentiation, between true and false, good and evil, man and God, toward one of de-differentiation, where everything becomes calculable and thus comparable. Drawing on psychoanalysis, social theory, and geo-economic analysis, the book explores how digitalization, while seemingly unifying, actually fragments our “society of individuals”; and asks whether it might herald the advent of a new form of totalitarianism.

Scholars, researchers, and students in social sciences, digital studies, philosophy and psychoanalysis will find this book invaluable. It offers a unique blend of insights, combining social sciences with psychoanalysis to illuminate the new interplay between the psychic and the social in the digital age. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the transformative impact of digitalization on human psyche, thought and society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Pierre Beckouche is Professor in the Department of Geography at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France, where is a member of the “Ladyss” laboratory and is also affiliated with the Artificial Intelligence Observatory. His research focuses on economic and regional geography, as well as the relationship between identity and territories, particularly the impact of the digital revolution on societies and spatial dynamics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3032128102
• ISBN 13: 9783032128102
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 366
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