Introduction

This is a philosophy (of technology) book about how the process philosophy of Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead might be used to better understand the nature of (digital) experience. As such, this book is a piece of critical information systems research; both the Editor, David Kreps, and one of the contributors, Bernd Stahl, are active in the field of Information Systems. But at the same time, it is an exploration into philosophy of technology and metaphysics: three of the contributors–Mark Coeckelbergh, Yasushi Hirai and Tina Röck–are philosophers; into media arts: through design guru Malcolm Garrett; and into digital business practice: through Chris Bush and Elizabeth Buie from user experience specialists Sigma UK Ltd. This book seeks, then, through a very transdisciplinary foray, both to address the nature of the digital from a number of relevant angles, and to query where the digital may be taking us, ontologically, in relation to our understanding of the real.