Exploring Technology and Social Space / Edition 1

by J. (John) Macgregor Wise

Overview

This volume offers a critical, philosophical and epistemological framework to understand better our relations to technology and social space.

John Mac Gregor Wise: focuses on the burgeoning technological assemblage of communication and information characterized by the Internet and cyberspace; draws on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and the actor-network sociology of Latour; and brings together diverse examples from cyborg films, television, museums, cyberspace and debates over a new world information and communication order. In the last chapter, the possibilities and limitations of human agency within the new wired world are described.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761904229
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/03/1997
Series:	New Media Cultures , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	231
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.53(d)

Table of Contents

EPISTEME
Introduction
Slouching towards Tralfamadore
The Modern Episteme
Beyond the Modern Episteme
Space and Agency in the Land of the Cyborgs
Living in a Deleuzian World
ASSEMBLAGE
Making Television, Making History
AT&T Builds the Bomb
Communications
From SDI to NII through the MSI
Welcome to Your Assemblage
It's a Small World After All
Rethinking the NIICO and the GII
Conclusion
Technology is License to Forget

Editorial Reviews

Elaborates a critical, philosophical, and epistemological framework from which to better understand our relations to technology and social space. Argues that most treatments of technology and society arise from a modernist set of assumptions that separates humans from technologies, and explores alternative perspectives centered on notions of agency, looking at communication and information technology. Draws on examples from film, television, museums, and cyberspace, as well as the work of philosophers Deleuse and Guattari. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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