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Moral tales and meditations : technological parables and refractions / Michael Joyce ; afterword by Hélène Cixous.
Van Pelt Library PS3560.O885 M6 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Joyce, Michael, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology and civilization--Moral and ethical aspects--Fiction.
- Technology and civilization.
- Technology and civilization--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects--Fiction.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Didactic fiction, American.
- Parables.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 149 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Novelist, cyber-theorist, and widely acclaimed hypertext fiction writer Michael Joyce weaves an evocative and provocative set of brief essays and short parable-like fictions into a compelling collection of meditations on how technology and new media affect our culture and everyday lives.
- Contents:
- Moral Tales and Meditations
- Colossus 3
- Reflection 15
- Meditation 1 At Home with a New Thing 27
- Storm Tossed 31
- White Moths 39
- Meditation 2 Time Zones 45
- Speed of Light 49
- A Man on the Moon 57
- Memory Picnic 69
- Seraph 73
- Meditation 4 Recursion, Virtuality, and Simulacrum 81
- Another Land 85
- Meditation 5 Amusement Parks 95
- Saint Someone 99
- Meditation 6 Space (and Time) 111
- Three Last Pieces
- Real Life 117
- The Persistence of the Ordinary 127
- The Future of Fiction and Other Large Phrases 139.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-149).
- ISBN:
- 0791451550
- OCLC:
- 46641779
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