Contemporary culture and digital transition

Abstract

It is increasingly evident that one of the most important tasks of the 21st century will be to address the widespread and accelerated transformation of culture triggered by digital technologies and infrastructures. Due to the rapid universalisation and planetarization of cybernetics, it is imperative that this question is not addressed only when its full consequences are already in plain sight. Politics, epistemologies, ecologies, and ontologies have to be questioned and shaped in the effort — and hope — that thought is still able to produce different, alternative, or critical cosmologies. The introduction to the issue 60-61 of the Journal of Communication and Languages returns to the notion of “digital transition” to outline this critical framework and contribute to today’s question concerning technology.