Recursivity and Contingency - Hui, Yuk (Yuk Hui is a philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

This book is an investigation of algorithmic contingency and an elucidation of the contemporary situation that we are living in: the regular arrival of algorithmic catastrophes on a global scale. Through a historical analysis of philosophy, computation and media, this book proposes a renewed relation between nature and technics.