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What is the digital revolution the revolution of ? What is turned upside down and

disturbed, reformed and transformed, in the so-called ‘digital revolution’ ? To answer

this, digital revolution is approached here from the point of view of a philosophy of

technology which assumes that our being-in-the-world is fundamentally conditioned

by technique and always has been. The first level of this approach focuses on the

historical structure of the digital revolution. The hypothesis is that the digital

revolution is an event in history that is part of the long process of mechanization in

the West and consists in the advent of a ‘digital technical system’. The second level

concerns the phenomenological structure of the digital revolution. The hypothesis is

that a technical revolution is always ontophanic, that is to say a shaking of the

structures of perception and of the process through which the being appears to us.

This results in phenomenological constructivism, based on the notion of

phenomenotechnique, which ultimately condemns the notion of ‘virtual’. The third

and final level of analysis focuses on the ontophanic structure of the digital

revolution. The hypothesis is that digital ontophany consists of eleven fundamental

characteristics : noumenality, ideality, interactivity, virtuality, versatility, reticularity,

instant reproducibility, reversibility, destructibility, fluidity and ludogeneity. The role of design as a phenomenotechnical activity that shapes the world is therefore

essential in the creative development of the digital ontophany.

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