memory trade. A Prehistory of Cyberculture (Mängelexemplar)

Tofts, Daren und Murray McKeich:

ISBN 10: 9057041812 / ISBN 13: 9789057041815

Editore: Interface, 1998

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Memory Trade is an exploration, in text and image, of the unconscious of cyberculture, its silent, secret prehistory. From Plato's Cave to Borges' literary labyrinths, Freud's Mystic Wtriting-Pad, and Joyce's reinvention of language in 'Finnegans Wake', Memory Trade is a palimpsest of contemporary culture., Sprache: Deutsch. Codice articolo 6082

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Titolo: memory trade. A Prehistory of Cyberculture (...

Casa editrice: Interface

Data di pubblicazione: 1998

Legatura: 131 S. Kt., zahlr.Abb.

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Riassunto:

The Notion of "culture" is changing at the speed of information itself. Computer technology is creating a new kind of public cyberculture with all its utopian and apocalyptic possibilities. But is it that new?
Popular debate generally ignores cyberculture's historical context. The official history begins in the 19th century and tracks the evolution of telecommunications, the egalitarian dream of the global village, and the emergence of the military-industrial complex. However this omits the deeper prehistory of technological transformations of culture that are everywhere felt but nowhere seen in the telematic landscape of the late-twentieth century. Cyberculture is an extension, rather than innovation, of human engagement with communication and information technologies.

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Darren Tofts is Senior Lecturer in Literature at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.