Technology is a host of social, material, and epistemic transformation techniques, tools, and methods. The common perception of digital technology today is that it is determined, even over-determined. This volume suggests a different view: the digital is indeterminate. Mobilising insights from philosophy, art and architecture theory, mathematics, computer science and anthropology, it situates digital indeterminacy within the wider context of material and immaterial processes, causations, triggerings, and their performative working.

The books tripartite structure reflects technologys inherent capacity to transform knowledges, practices, and time. Part I: Social-Digital Technologies juxtaposes arguments for machinic indeterminacy to those of overdetermination in blockchain, cognitive augmentation, and digital ideology. Part II: Spatial, Temporal, Aural and Visual Technologies delves deeper into received ideas about technologies for building spatial structures, manufacturing instruments and constructing the visual space. Part III: Epistemic Technologies analyses the use of plasticity in cognitive science, contingency in thinking habits, ontogenesis in experimental computing, and divination techniques with an inbuilt margin of indeterminacy.

List of contributors: Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Iain Campbell, Stephen Darren Dougherty, Aden Evens, Oswaldo Emiddio Vasquez Hadjilyra, Stavros Kousoulas, Natasha Lushetich,Peteer Müürsepp, Luciana Parisi, Andrej Radman, Alesha Serada, Dominic Smith, Sha Xin Wei, Joel White, Ashley Woodward, and David Zeitlyn.

Natasha Lushetich is professor of contemporary art& theory at the University of Dundee and Arts and Humanities Research Council Leadership Fellow. Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on intermedia and critical mediality; global art; the status of sensory experience in cultural knowledge; biopolitics and performativity. Her books includeFluxus: The Practice of Non-Duality(2014),Interdisciplinary Performance (2016),The Aesthetics of Necropolitics (Rowman& Littlefield 2018),Beyond Mind, Symbolism, an International Annual of Critical Aesthetics (2019),Big Data A New Medium? (2020) andDistributed Perception: Resonances and Axiologies (co-edited with I. Campbell, 2021).

Iain Campbell is a teaching fellow in aesthetics at Edinburgh College of Art and a research associate at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, where he is working on the projectThe Future of Indeterminacy: Datafication, Memory, Bio-Politics. He has written on topics across philosophy, music, sound studies, and art theory for publications includingparallax,Contemporary Music Review,Sound Studies, andContinental Philosophy Review. His current research focuses on experimentation and on the differences and continuities between conceptualisations of this notion in philosophy, art, music, and science. He is co-editor, with Natasha Lushetich, ofDistributed Perception: Resonances and Axiologies (2021).

Dominic Smith is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Dundee, where he researches philosophy of technology/media. Dominic is interested in bringing the continental tradition in philosophy (e.g. phenomenology, critical theory, poststructuralism, new forms of realism and materialism) to bear on philosophy of technology and media. He is a member of the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy: http://scot-cont-phil.org/. Dominics latest book isExceptional Technologies: A Continental Philosophy of Technology.His current project involves thinking about how philosophy of technology can be broadened to speak to issues in philosophy of education, design, and creativity, with a focus on the work of Walter Benjamin.

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Prologue: Normalising Catastrophe or Revealing Mysterious Sur-Chaotic Micro-Worlds?

Natasha Lushetich, Iain Campbell and Dominic Smith

Acknowledgments

Part I: Social-Digital Technologies

Chapter 1: Information and Alterity: From Probability to Plasticity

Ashley Woodward

Chapter 2: Transcendental Instrumentality and Incomputable Thinking

Luciana Parisi

Chapter 3: Digital Ontology and Contingency

Aden Evens

Chapter 4: Blockchain Owns You: From Cypherpunk to Self-Sovereign Identity

Alesha Serada

Chapter 5: The Double Spiral of Chaos and Automation

Franco Bifo Berardi

Part II: Spatial, Temporal, Aural and Visual Technologies

Chapter 6: Allagmatics of Architecture: From Generic Structures to Genetic Operations (and Back)

Andrej Radman

Chapter 7: Computation and Material Transformations: Dematerialisation, Rematerialisation and Immaterialisation in Time-Based Media

Oswaldo Emiddio Vasquez Hadjilyra

Chapter 8: How the Performer Came to be Prepared: Three Moments in Musics Encounter with Everyday Technologies

Iain Campbell

Chapter 9: The Given and the Made: Thinking Transversal Plasticity with Duchamp, Brecht and Troikas Artistic Technologies

Natasha Lushetich

Chapter 10: Anankes Sway: Architectures of Synaptic Passages

Stavros Kousoulas

Part III: Epistemic Technologies

Chapter 11: Outline to an Architectonics of Thermodynamics: Lifes Entropic Indeterminacy

Joel White

Chapter 12: Irreversibility and Uncertainty: Revisiting Prigogine in the Digital Age

Peteer Müürsepp

Chapter 13:At the Crossroads: Essence and Plasticity in Catherine Malabous Philosophy of Plasticity

Stephen Dougherty

Chapter 14: Ugly David and the Magnetism of Everyday Technologies: On Hume, Habit, and Hindsight

Dominic Smith

Chapter 15: Adjacent Possibles: Indeterminacy and Ontogenesis

Sha Xin Wei

Epilogue: Schrödingers Spider in the African Bush: Coping with Indeterminacy in the Framing of Questions to Mambila Spider Divination

David Zeitlyn