TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kreps,David
ED  - Taylor and Francis.
TI  - Against nature: the metaphysics of information systems 
SN  - 9781351233828
AV  - QA76.167 
U1  - 004.01 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Boca Raton, FL
PB  - Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Information technology
KW  - COMPUTERS / Computer Literacy
KW  - COMPUTERS / Computer Science
KW  - COMPUTERS / Data Processing
KW  - COMPUTERS / Hardware / General
KW  - COMPUTERS / Information Technology
KW  - COMPUTERS / Machine Theory
KW  - COMPUTERS / Reference
N1  - chapter 1 A transdisciplinary approach; David Kreps --; chapter 2 The problem with digital; David Kreps --; chapter 3 The future does not exist; David Kreps --; chapter 4 The world in a new light; David Kreps --; chapter 5 A theoretical manifesto for Green IT; David Kreps
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351233828
ER  -