Outputs

The Understanding Digital Events project had the following outputs:

Journal Paper:

Kreps, David and Rowe, Frantz (2024) “Research Perspectives: Using a Process Philosophy Perspective in Information Systems Research: Principles of Creative Evolution,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 25(5), 1410-1433.
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00883. Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol25/iss5/1

Conference Papers:

Kreps, D. (2018) ‘Infomateriality’, presented at International Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, December 2018.

Kreps, D., Rowe, F., & Muirhead, J (2020) ‘Understanding Digital Events: process philosophy and causal autonomy’ to be presented at Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, January 2020.

Books:

Kreps, D., (ed.) (2019) Understanding Digital Events: Bergson, Whitehead, and the Experience of the Digital. London: Routledge.

Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems

By David Kreps

“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.”