Virtual Futures (eBook, PDF)

Cyberotics, Technology and Posthuman Pragmatism
Redaktion: Broadhurst Dixon, Joan; Cassidy, Eric

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Produktbeschreibung

"Virtual Futures" explores the ideas that the future lies in its ability to articulate the consequences of an increasingly synthetic and virtual world. New technologies like cyberspace, the internet, and Chaos theory are often discussed in the context of technology and its potential to liberate or in terms of technophobia. This collection examines both these ideas while also charting a new and controversial route through contemporary discourses on technology; a path that discusses the material evolution and the erotic relation between humans and machines. Including essays by Sadie Plant, Stelarc and Manuel de Landa, the collection heralds the death of humanism and the rise of posthuman pragmatism. This collection provides analyses by both established theorists and the most innovative new voices working in conjunction between the arts and contemporary technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134784608
• Artikelnr.: 42718847

Autorenporträt

Joan Broadhurst Dixon is a lecturer in Social and Cultural Theory at the University of Derby. She teaches a course on Post-Human Thought. Eric Cassidy is doing research on the relationship between Deleuze and Pynchon at Warwick University. He co-ordinated the Virual Futures 1994 and 1995 Conferences at Warwick University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Virtual Futures Eric J. Cassidy Part 1. The Information War Hakim
Bey Part 2. Cyberotics, Theses on the Cyberotics of History: Venus in
Microsoft, remix Stephen Pfohl Coming Across the Future Sadie Plant All New
Gen VNS Matrix Part 3. Cyberculture Singularities Telepathy and Illiteracy:
Alphabetic Consciousness and the Age of Cyberotics David Porush Virtual
Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason Manuel De Landa Part 4.
Anarcho-Materialism Cybergothic Nick Land Epidermal History and Speed
Politics Matteo Mandarini Black Ice Iain Hamilton Grant Part 5. Posthuman
Pragmatism Autogedon Stephan Metcalf Da Body Stelarc Postscript: Ground
Zero Joan Broadhurst Dixon.