Title & Author:

Prefiguring cyberculture : an intellectual history / edited by Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, and Alessio Cavallaro.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.

Description:

xiv, 322 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / N. Katherine Hayles -- Introduction: On Mutability -- I. Robot: AI, Alife and Cyborgs -- Synthetic Meditations: Cogito in the Matrix / Erik Davis -- The Instruments of Life: Frankenstein and Cyberculture / Catherine Waldby -- Imaginable Computers: Affects and Intelligence in Alan Turing / Elizabeth Wilson -- Marrying the Premodern to the Postmodern: Computers and Organisms after WWII / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Cassandra Among the Cyborgs, or, the Silicon Termination Notice / Samuel J. Umland and Karl Wessel -- Cyberquake: Haraway's Manifesto / Zoe Sofoulis -- Virtuality: Webworlds and Cyberspaces -- Reality Tables: Virtual Furniture / Gregory L. Ulmer -- Porous Memory and the Cognitive Life of Things / John Sutton -- Becoming Immedia: The Involution of Digital Convergence / Donald F. Theall -- Too Real / McKenzie Wark -- Space for Rent in the Last Suburb / Scott McQuire.
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Summary:

Media critics and theorists, philosophers, and historians of science explore the antecedents of such aspects of contemporary technological culture as the Internet, the World Wide Web, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, virtual reality, and the cyborg.

ISBN:

0262201453 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262201452
9780262701082
0262701081

Subject:

Technological innovations History.
Information technology Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Innovations Histoire.
Technologie de l'information Aspect social.
Technologie et civilisation.
Technological innovations.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Tofts, Darren.
Jonson, Annemarie.
Cavallaro, Alessio.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287831
Call No.: BIB 229234
Status: Available