Times of technoculture : from the information, communication society to the virtual life /
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Author / Creator: | Robins, Kevin. |
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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 |
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