Prefiguring cyberculture : an intellectual history / edited by Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, and Alessio Cavallaro.
| Other author | Tofts, Darren. |
| Other author | Jonson, Annemarie. |
| Other author | Cavallaro, Alessio. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003. |
| Description | xiv, 322 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Terms of use | Current Copyright Fee: GBP15.00 0. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2002029375 |
| ISBN | 0262201453 (hc. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780262201452 |
| ISBN | 9780262701082 |
| ISBN | 0262701081 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | T173.8 .P688 2003 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |