Beyond Big Data Capitalism, Towards Dialectical Digital Modernity : Reflections on David Chandler’s Chapter

Abstract

David Chandler's chapter studies changes of onto-epistemology and governance in the age of digitality and Big Data. He argues that the logic of dualism, reductionism, linear causation and mechanic determinism has advanced problems of society and is unable to give a proper response to the world's complexity. The implication is that we need a different kind of onto-epistemology that moves beyond dualism and enables new forms of governing society and the digital. David Chandler argues in this volume that the 'ontopolitical assumptions of digital governance can be usefully grasped in terms of actor network theory' , and in this context he is particularly interested in Bruno Latour's works and new materialist theories in general, including the works of Donna Haraway and others. David Chandler says that these approaches allow us to move beyond dualism and to conceive the world and the digital as being

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“…Dialectical logic provides a creative way of transforming the chaotic flow of information into a system of adequate knowledge about the complex and contradictory world in the process of its development and supports practical transformative activity of the people (Vinogradov 2003). Moreover, dialectic logic offers an original perspective to go beyond ‘Big Data Capitalism’ based on instrumentalism, positivism, reductionism, and mechanical determinism (Fuchs 2019).…”