Prefiguring cyberculture

An intellectual history

Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, Alessio Cavallaro

336 pages, parution le 26/09/2003

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Résumé

The vast social apparatus of the computer network has aligned people with technology in unprecedented ways. The intimacy of the human-computer interface has made it impossible to distinguish technology from the social and cultural business of being human. Cyberculture is the broader name given to this process of becoming through technological means. This book shows that cyberculture has been a long time coming.

In Prefiguring Cyberculture, 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. The contributors examine key texts that anticipate cybercultural practice and theory, including Plato's "Simile of the Cave"; the Renaissance Ars Memoria; Descartes's Meditations (on the mind-body split); Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Alan Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence; Philip K. Dick's Man, Android, and Machine; William Gibson's Neuromancer; and Arthur C. Clarke's Profiles of the Future. In the final section, a number of cyberculture artists explore how cybercultural themes have been taken up and critiqued in the electronic arts.

I, Robot: AI, Alife and Cyborgs
Virtuality: Webworlds and Cyberspaces
Visible Unrealities : Artists'Statements
Futuropolis : Postmillennial Speculations

L'auteur - Darren Tofts

Darren Tofts is Chair of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.

L'auteur - Annemarie Jonson

Annemarie Jonson teaches in the Arts Informatics Program at the University of Sydney.

L'auteur - Alessio Cavallaro

Alessio Cavallaro is a producer and curator of new media projects at the Australian Center for the Moving Image in Melbourne.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	The MIT Press
Auteur(s)	Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, Alessio Cavallaro
Parution	26/09/2003
Nb. de pages	336
Format	21,5 x 26
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1225g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780262201452
ISBN13	978-0-262-20145-2