Virtual Futures: Cyberotics, Technology and Posthuman Pragmatism

by Joan Broadhurst Dixon (Editor), Eric Cassidy (Editor)

Overview

Brings together cyberfeminism, postmodern fiction, computing culture, materialist philosophy and performance art to discuss and articulate the consequences of an increasingly synthetic, virtual and technological world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415133791
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/26/1998
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.