Hacking Digital Ethics

“Hacking Digital Ethics is a groundbreaking critique of what human right and individuality can mean in a digitally connected world where people are dependent on the infrastructure of a community. Belliger and Krieger make the case that individuals are at their best when they identify with a community and that communities are only at their best when they identify all of their individuals.”—James Felton Keith, Inclusion Researcher, Keith Institute, New York, United States

“David J. Krieger and Andréa Belliger, quite literally, ‘hack’ ethics in the digital age: Rather than asking what digital ethics should look like, they pose the question of what and how ethics can be. Their answer to that question is surprising: Positing that digital ethics in its current form is little more than ‘an attempt to reassert the values, norms and regulatory regimes of Western industrial society’, the authors propose the adoption of a posthuman view of social order, and a digital ethics governed by the rules of successful networks: connectivity, flow, communication, participation, transparency, authenticity, and flexibility.” —Barbara Prainsack, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria

“This is a lively text written with an edge in a dashing style. It presents a mixture of outspokenly idealistic with accentuated provocative views on the contemporary digital world and its potential trajectories. The authors turn many assumptions and dogmas upside down. Thought- and debate-provoking!” —Roland Benedikter, Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research, Italy