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Virtual futures : cyberotics, technology and post-human pragmatism

Title
Virtual futures : cyberotics, technology and post-human pragmatism / edited by Joan Broadhurst Dixon & Eric J. Cassidy.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Dixon, Joan Broadhurst, 1963-
  • Cassidy, Eric J., 1967-
Description
xii, 125 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
Explores the idea that the future lies in its ability to articulate the consequences of an increasingly synthetic and virtual world.
Subject
  • Technology > Social aspects
  • Technology > Psychological aspects
  • Computers and civilization
  • Cyberspace
  • Datenverarbeitung
  • Sozialer Wandel
  • Virtuelle Realität
  • Zukunft
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Technologie
  • Cultuur
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface: Virtual Futures / Eric J. Cassidy -- The Information War / Hakim Bey -- Theses on the Cyberotics of History: Venus in Microsoft, Remix / Stephen Pfohl -- Coming Across the Future / Sadie Plant -- All New Gen / VNS Matrix -- Telepathy: Alphabetic Consciousness and the Age of Cyborg Illiteracy / David Porush -- Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason / Manuel De Landa -- Cybergothic / Nick Land -- From Epidermal History to Speed Politics / Matteo Mandarini -- Black Ice / Iain Hamilton Grant -- Autogeddon / Stephen Metcalf -- From Psycho-Body to Cyber-Systems: Images as Post-Human Entities / Stelarc -- Postscript: Ground Zero / Joan Broadhurst Dixon.
ISBN
  • 0415133793
  • 9780415133791
  • 0415133807
  • 9780415133807
LCCN
97019274
OCLC
  • ocm36847804
  • 36847804
  • SCSB-359907
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library