Kevin Robins, Frank Webster

Times of the Technoculture

From the Information Society to the Virtual Life

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Produktbeschreibung

In a riveting look at today's computer technology, Robins and Webster ask the disturbing question: Is it cyber-revolution-or information capitalism? They trace the information age from the Industrial Revolution to the silicon chip and the Internet. Examining the politics of cyberspace, they show how the military has controlled the development of new technologies and why education plays a central role in government attempts to create a "knowledge society." With broad coverage of current issues, including information policy, technological innovation, education, the military, surveillance, and propaganda, "Times of the Technoculture" is a thought-provoking revisionist account of Luddite resistance to new technologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780415161152
• ISBN-10: 0415161150
• Artikelnr.: 21856157

Autorenporträt

Kevin Robins is Professor of Cultural Geography at the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Newcastle. Frank Webster is Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the changing technoscape PART I Techno-visions 1 A cultural
history of Pandaemonium 2 Engaging with Luddism 3 The hollowing of progress
PART II Genealogies of information 4 The long history of the information
revolution 5 The cybernetic imagination of capitalism 6 Propaganda: the
hidden face of information PART III The politics of cyberspace 7 Cyberwars:
the military information revolution 8 Education as knowledge and discipline
9 Deconstructing the academy: the new production of human capital PART IV
Living in virtual space 10 Prospects of a virtual culture 11 The virtual
pacification of space