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Moral tales and meditations : technological parables and refractions

Title: Moral tales and meditations : technological parables and refractions / Michael Joyce ; afterword by Hélène Cixous.
Author: Joyce, Michael, 1945-
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001], ©2001.

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xvi, 149 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Novelist, cyber-theorist, and widely acclaimed hypertext ficton writer Michael Joyce weaves an evocative and provocative set of brief essays and short parable-like fictions into a compelling collection of meditations on how technology and new media affect our culture and everyday lives. Taken together, these pieces present a writer's reflections on a life of sudden changes at the edge of an uncertain future.
They continue Joyce's effort to construct what in previous collections he has called "theoretical narratives." Here, however, Joyce turns from reflections to what he terms "refractions," alluding to the turning or bending a wave undergoes when it passes from one medium into another of different density. Through these refractions, he formulates an understanding of the wave of change we face as human beings in a multimediated age."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-149).

Contents

Moral Tales And Meditations. Colossus. Reflections. At Home with a New Thing. Storm Tossed. White Moths. Time Zones. Speed of Light. A Man on the Moon. Memory Picnic. Seraph. Recursion, Virtuality, and Simulacrum. Another Land. Amusement Parks. Saint Someone. Space (and Time) -- Three Last Pieces. Real Life. The Persistence of the Ordinary. The Future of Fiction and Other Large Phrases. Afterword / Helene Cixous.

ISBN

0791451550 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001020949

OCLC

ocm46641779
SCSB-4214077

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Columbia University Libraries