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1) The four-dimensional human: ways of being in the digital world

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Scott, Laurence

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Pub. Date

[2016]

Language

English

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"Hailed as a 'New Generation Thinker" by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC, the author, blending tech-philosophy with a vast array of insights, shows how we are entering into a four-dimensional world, filled with ceaseless communication, instant information and global connection, that is dramatically changing us,"--NoveList.

2) Picnic comma lightning: the experience of reality in the twenty-first century

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Scott, Laurence (Lecturer)

Publisher

W.W. Norton & Company

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

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Drawing on the intersection of philosophy, politics, and memoir, an existential meditation on personal loss and the role of digital tech in how we find meaning in today's world illuminates the transition into self-defined but vulnerable intangible realities. --Publisher "In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Humbert Humbert offers a memorably brief account of his parents' death: 'picnic, lightning.' Picnic Comma Lightning, too, opens with death--that of...