“Perhaps we should understand the digit as an openly imitable and probabilistically imperfect index of any thinkable world, including this world, with which there can be no final convergence.” The following is a draft of an essay, eventually for publication as part of the Digital Keywords project (Ben Peters, ed). This and other drafts will be circulated on […]
Ben Peters
Ben Peters is the author of How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (MIT Press 2016) and editor of Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture (Princeton 2016). He teaches at the University of Tulsa. @bjpeters
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