{"id":547,"date":"2018-05-25T22:09:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T22:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/?p=547"},"modified":"2023-06-01T21:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T21:00:57","slug":"against-nature-the-metaphysics-of-information-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/against-nature-the-metaphysics-of-information-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dr David Kreps - Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FPivvn4FvQ0?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-548 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BE538F0B-8F01-4082-A86B-61C15B2DC5C1-192x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BE538F0B-8F01-4082-A86B-61C15B2DC5C1-192x300.jpeg 192w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BE538F0B-8F01-4082-A86B-61C15B2DC5C1-96x150.jpeg 96w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BE538F0B-8F01-4082-A86B-61C15B2DC5C1.jpeg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/>David\u2019s book \u2018Against Nature\u2019 was published in May 2018 by Routledge, in their Focus series for short, punchy new work. At 110pages this book aims to get a meaty snapshot of David\u2019s thinking across to readers beginning to become aware of his work. Accessibly written for a wide audience of scholars, thought leaders and the curious, this book combines David\u2019s interests in the digital business world, political and metaphysical philosophy, and what history can tell us about how we came to be damaging our home, with signposts for how we might survive this critical time.<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 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.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Copies are available from all good bookshops, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Against-Nature-The-Metaphysics-of-Information-Systems\/Kreps\/p\/book\/9780815377757\">direct from the Publisher, Routledge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kreps, D., (2018) <em>Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems<\/em> London: Routledge. 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