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The digital dialectic : new essays on new media / edited by Peter Lunenfeld.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Leonardo
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computers and civilization.
- Digital media.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 298 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Digital Diolectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. The key concept is the digital dialectic: a method to ground the insights of theory in the constraints of practice. The essays move beyond journalistic reportage and hype into serious but accessible discussion of new technologies, new media, and new cultural forms.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- I - The Real and the Ideal
- 1 - Unfinished Business
- 2 - The Cyberspace Dialectic
- 3 - The Ethical Life of the Digital Aesthetic
- II - The Body and the Machine
- 4 - The Condition of Virtuality
- 5 - From Cybernation to Interaction: A Contribution to an Archaeology of Interactivity
- 6 - Replacing Place
- III - The Medium and the Message
- 7 - The Medium Is the Memory
- 8 - Hypertext as Collage-Writing
- 9 - What Is Digital Cinema?
- IV - The World and the Screen
- 10 - "We Could Be Better Ancestors Than This": Ethics and First Principles for the Art of the Digital Age
- 11 - Musings on Amusements in America, or What I Did on My Summer Vacation
- Notes
- Recommended Readings in New Media Theory
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-10000-9
- 0-262-27864-2
- 9786612100000
- 0-585-10238-4
- OCLC:
- 42922588
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