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Digital Aesthetics
This book investigates the aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world. It casts a cool eye on the claims of cybertopians, tracing the globalization of the new medium and enquiring into its effects on subjectivity and sociality
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monografia Rebiun19152081 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun19152081 m d cr -n--------- 131216s1998||||||| s|||||||||||eng|d 0-7619-5900-9 1-283-88053-9 1-84860-920-5 0-585-38370-7 UPVA 997913632403706 UAM 991008025526504211 UPM 991005763676204212 CBUC 991010881371906709 CBUC 991001006172806712 UPCT u301369 AU-PeEL eng AU-PeEL AU-PeEL eng 303.4834 Cubitt, Sean Digital Aesthetics electronic resource] Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society Theory, Culture and Society Theory, Culture and Society : Digital Aesthetics London SAGE Publications 1998 London London SAGE Publications 1 online resource (189 p.) 1 online resource (189 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society Description based upon print version of record Cover; Contents; Preface: The Universal Touring Machine; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Reading the Interface; Cybercafé; Hypertext and the Colonial Dialectic; A Good Read; The Library; Browsing and Netsurfing: Playful Reading; After Privacy: The Politics of Intimacy; Writing Materials; Chapter 2 - Virtual Realism: Machine Perception and the Global Image; Travelling Light; Critique of Cyborg Vision; The Anarchy and Society of Perceptions; Visual Rhetoric: The Socialisation of Perception; Remote Sensing: Global Images; Deconstructing the Map; The Ethics of Utopia; Chapter 3 - Spatial Effects The Trouble with HubbleZeno's Paradox: Interminable Identities; From Orient to Outer Space: Cosmic Commodities; Perspective as Special Effect; From Outer Space to Cyberspace; Hacker Transvestism and the Tourist Mouse; Chapter 4 - Pygmalion: Silence, Sound and Space; Silence; Pure Hearing; Recording: The Mobilisation of Sound; Transmission: Silent Listening, Silent Reading; The Incoherence of the Soundtrack; Dispersed Spaces: Art Geography; Chapter 5 - Turbulence: Network Morphology and the Corporate Cyborg; Network Subjectivity and the Secret Honour of the Posts; A Brief History of Flow The Human BiochipJunk DNA: Morphologies of Multimedia; Anonymous History: Globalisation and Diaspora; References; Index This book investigates the aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world. It casts a cool eye on the claims of cybertopians, tracing the globalization of the new medium and enquiring into its effects on subjectivity and sociality English Computers and civilization Human-computer interaction Computers and civilization Human-computer interaction Engineering & Applied Sciences. HILCC Computer Science. HILCC Electronic books 1-4462-5034-2 0-7619-5899-1 Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society