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Aden Evens is associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is author of Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience (Minnesota, 2005) and Logic of the Digital. Alexander R. Galloway is professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University, Steinhardt.
"""This book argues that the digital’s decisive discreteness is actually an intensification of a dominant predigital ideology. Such a perspective supposes a parsable world that blinds us to an actuality of elusive contingency. Drawing on deep understandings of digital technology and philosophy, Aden Evens demystifies crucial arcane features with startlingly lucid and accessible explanations, all while summoning a world that defies explanation.""—Katherine Behar, Baruch College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York ""The Digital and Its Discontents will be illuminating for anyone who has ever twisted their speech into discrete, mechanical sounds to please a voice recognition system. Determined to resist the digital imperative to speak, write, think, and ultimately be like a machine, Aden Evens reaches for contingency as the ontological spice that distinguishes actuality from virtuality. And he flavors his formalist approach with vignettes that compare human and digital relationality in scenes that range from playing a video game or a cello to hitting a baseball or squishing a lemon.""—Marcel O’Gorman, founding director, Critical Media Lab, University of Waterloo "
