Times of technoculture : from the information, communication society to the virtual life /

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Author / Creator:Robins, Kevin.
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Description:viii, 318 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Comedia
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4259727
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Other authors / contributors:Webster, Frank.
ISBN:0415161150 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0415161169 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-306) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the changing technoscape
  • Part I. Techno-visions
  • 1. A cultural history of Pandaemonium
  • 2. Engaging with Luddism
  • 3. The hollowing of progress
  • Part II. Genealogies of information
  • 4. The long history of the information revolution
  • 5. The cybernetic imagination of capitalism
  • 6. Propaganda: the hidden face of information
  • Part III. The politics of cyberspace
  • 7. Cyberwars: the military information revolution
  • 8. Education as knowledge and discipline
  • 9. Deconstructing the academy: the new production of human capital
  • Part IV. Living in virtual space
  • 10. Prospects of a virtual culture
  • 11. The virtual pacification of space
  • Notes
  • Index