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Virtual Realities and Their Discontents Paperback
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- Book Title
- Virtual Realities and Their Discontents Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780801852268
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801852269
ISBN-13
9780801852268
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1111628
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
197 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Virtual Realities and Their Discontents
Subject
Social Aspects / General, General, Virtual Worlds
Publication Year
1981
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Computers
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
8.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
95-021184
Reviews
''Refreshingly sceptical views about the importance (or otherwise) of virtual worlds find a home in this good old-fashioned text-book.''--'New Scientist', "Refreshingly sceptical views about the importance (or otherwise) of virtual worlds find a home in this good old-fashioned text-book."-- New Scientist
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
810.9/0356
Synopsis
The recognition the cyberspace is a fiction--a narrative that creates a coherence it would like to imagine 'really' exists-is crucial to any theoretically sophisticated critique of the limitations of this consensual hallucination and the discontents it imperfectly masks., The recognition that cyberspace is a fiction-a narrative that creates a coherence it would like to imagine ''really'' exists-is crucial to any theoretically sophisticated critique of the limitations of this consensual hallucination and the discontents it imperfectly masks. In this groundbreaking volume Robert Markley and his co-authors set out to discover why ''cyberspace provokes often-rapturous rhetoric but resists critical analysis.'' Taking a variety of approaches, the authors explore the ways in which virtual realities conserve and incorporate rather than overthrow the assumptions and values of a traditional, logocentric humanism: the Platonist division of the world into the physical and metaphysical in which ideal forms are valued over material content. Cyberspace, David Porush suggests, represents not a break with our metaphysical past but an extension of its basic theistic postulates. Richard Grusin argues that the claims for new forms of electronic communication depend upon the very notions of authorship-and subjectivity-they claim to transcend. N. Katherine Hayles examines debates about cybernetics in the 1950s to demonstrate that the history of mind-body ideas in the age of computers and feedback loops is itself conflicted. David Brande analyzes cyberspace as an extension of the logic of late twentieth-century capitalism. And Robert Markley explores the entangled roots of cyberspace in the philosophy of mathematics. ''One of the ironies of our culture's fascination with cyberspace is that our material and psychic investments in Virtual Reality suggest that the death of print culture-or its disappearance into the matrix-has been greatly exaggerated. . . . Cyberspace is unthinkable, literally inconceivable, without the print culture it claims to transcend. It is, in part, a by-product of a tradition of metaphysics that, boats against the current, bears us back relentlessly to our past.''-Robert Markley, from the introduction, The recognition that cyberspace is a fiction-a narrative that creates a coherence it would like to imagine ''really'' exists-is crucial to any theoretically sophisticated critique of the limitations of this consensual hallucination and the discontents it imperfectly masks. In this groundbreaking volume Robert Markley and his co-authors set out to ......
LC Classification Number
QA76.9.H85V55 1996
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