Digital Dialectics? (opens in new tab)

While the four of us largely agree on the basic terms discussed in Digital Theory, a few specific points of disagreement remain. Dialectics is one of those points of disagreement. Handelman and Weatherby's chapter, titled "Digital Dialectics," argues that the two terms are intertwined. Meanwhile, my chapter insists that the digital is strictly incompatible with dialectics. The argument is simple: the digital militantly observes both the principle of identity and the principle of noncontradict...