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vii, 374 pages ; 26 cm;"Reading Digital Culture brings together key essays that have established the terms of the debate about the future of information technology. Definitive essays by many of the field's most widely read commentators - Virilio, Haraway, Landow, Castells, Aronowitz, Plant, Ross, Zizek, Guattari - range across issues that are central to digital life and culture: knowledge production, cyber-identity, computer art, online community, internet commerce, and the effect to technology on work and leisure. With contributions from both inside and outside the technology field, Reading Digital Culture will be essential reading for anyone interested in - and living in the midst of - the digital revolution."--Jacket;Includes bibliographical references and index;As we may think / Vannevar Bush -- "ada" / Sadie Plant -- From virtual reality to the virtualization of reality / Slavoj Žižek -- Speed and information: cyberspace alarm! / Paul Virilio -- A manifesto for cyborgs / Donna Haraway -- Machinic heterogenesis / Félix Guattari -- Johnny Mnemonic / William Gibson -- The erotic ontology of cyberspace / Michael Heim -- Virtually female: body and code / Margaret Morse -- Hypertext and critical theory / George Landow -- Computers as theatre / Brenda Laurel -- The information war / Hakim Bey -- Dilemmas of transformation in the age of the smart machine / Shoshanna Zuboff;Technology and the future of work / Stanley Aronowitz -- The theory of the virtual class / Arthur Kroker and Michael A. Weinstein -- The informational economy / Manuel Castells -- The global information highway: project for an ungovernable world / Herbert I. Schiller -- The coming of age of the flesh machine / Critical Art Ensemble -- Will the real body please stand up?: boundary stories about virtual cultures / Allucquère Rosanne (Sandy) Stone -- A rape in cyberspace; or how an evil clown, a Haitian trickster spirit, two wizards, and a cast of dozens turned a data base into a society / Julian Dibbell -- Women and children first: gender and the settling of the electronic frontier / Laura Miller -- We're teen, we're queer, and we've got e-mail / Steve Silberman;Race in/for cyberspace: identity tourism and racial passing on the Internet / Lisa Nakamura -- Who am we? / Sherry Turkle -- Collective intelligence / Pierre Lévy -- Cyberdemocracy: the Internet and the public sphere / Mark Poster -- The virtual community / Howard Rheingold -- The virtual barrio @ the other frontier (or the Chicago Interneta) / Guillermo Gómez-Peña -- A disappearance of community / Avital Ronell -- History, theory, and virtual reality / Robert Markley -- The seductions of cyberspace / N. Katherine Hayles -- New age mutant ninja hackers: reading Mondo 2000 / Vivian Sobchack -- Virtual skin: articulating race in cyberspace / Cameron Bailey -- Towards a new media aesthetic / Timothy Allen Jackson -- The new smartness / Andrew Ross
"Reading Digital Culture brings together key essays that have established the terms of the debate about the future of information technology. Definitive essays by many of the field's most widely read commentators - Virilio, Haraway, Landow, Castells, Aronowitz, Plant, Ross, Zizek, Guattari - range across issues that are central to digital life and culture: knowledge production, cyber-identity, computer art, online community, internet commerce, and the effect to technology on work and leisure. With contributions from both inside and outside the technology field, Reading Digital Culture will be essential reading for anyone interested in - and living in the midst of - the digital revolution."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references and index
As we may think / Vannevar Bush -- "ada" / Sadie Plant -- From virtual reality to the virtualization of reality / Slavoj Žižek -- Speed and information: cyberspace alarm! / Paul Virilio -- A manifesto for cyborgs / Donna Haraway -- Machinic heterogenesis / Félix Guattari -- Johnny Mnemonic / William Gibson -- The erotic ontology of cyberspace / Michael Heim -- Virtually female: body and code / Margaret Morse -- Hypertext and critical theory / George Landow -- Computers as theatre / Brenda Laurel -- The information war / Hakim Bey -- Dilemmas of transformation in the age of the smart machine / Shoshanna Zuboff
Technology and the future of work / Stanley Aronowitz -- The theory of the virtual class / Arthur Kroker and Michael A. Weinstein -- The informational economy / Manuel Castells -- The global information highway: project for an ungovernable world / Herbert I. Schiller -- The coming of age of the flesh machine / Critical Art Ensemble -- Will the real body please stand up?: boundary stories about virtual cultures / Allucquère Rosanne (Sandy) Stone -- A rape in cyberspace; or how an evil clown, a Haitian trickster spirit, two wizards, and a cast of dozens turned a data base into a society / Julian Dibbell -- Women and children first: gender and the settling of the electronic frontier / Laura Miller -- We're teen, we're queer, and we've got e-mail / Steve Silberman
Race in/for cyberspace: identity tourism and racial passing on the Internet / Lisa Nakamura -- Who am we? / Sherry Turkle -- Collective intelligence / Pierre Lévy -- Cyberdemocracy: the Internet and the public sphere / Mark Poster -- The virtual community / Howard Rheingold -- The virtual barrio @ the other frontier (or the Chicago Interneta) / Guillermo Gómez-Peña -- A disappearance of community / Avital Ronell -- History, theory, and virtual reality / Robert Markley -- The seductions of cyberspace / N. Katherine Hayles -- New age mutant ninja hackers: reading Mondo 2000 / Vivian Sobchack -- Virtual skin: articulating race in cyberspace / Cameron Bailey -- Towards a new media aesthetic / Timothy Allen Jackson -- The new smartness / Andrew Ross