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The Knight of Faith Encounters Mr. Robot—Digital Literacy Revisited Through Deleuze and Guattari in Response to the Onlife Manifesto

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The contributions put forward by various authors in the Onlife Manifesto (Floridi in The onlife manifesto: Being Human in a hyperconnected era. Springer, London, 2015) are the discursive content and starting point of the philosophical dramatization in this chapter. An ongoing dialogue is unfolding between the writings in the Onlife Manifesto, the content and storyline of the show Mr. Robot, contemporary digital literacy, and the thoughts of Deleuze and Guattari to create an intricate tableau of various voices regarding digital literacy. This chapter argues for a revisited form of digital literacy, resting upon a Spinozist inspired notion of enlightenment and rationalism as the antidote against a notion of self, which chafes in desirous bondage.

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    http://dougbelshaw.com/ambiguity/.

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    http://dougbelshaw.com/ambiguity/.

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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/07/22/you-dont-know-it-but-youre-working-for-facebook-for-free/?utm_term=.830df0ecf764.

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    Originally used with a hyphen by Deleuze and Guattari to stipulate link between desire and production.

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    Lars Bang

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Bang, L. (2019). The Knight of Faith Encounters Mr. Robot—Digital Literacy Revisited Through Deleuze and Guattari in Response to the Onlife Manifesto. In: Otrel-Cass, K. (eds) Hyperconnectivity and Digital Reality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24143-8_8

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