1st Edition
Technoculture and Critical Theory In the Service of the Machine?
By Simon Cooper
Copyright 2002
192 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics and culture. Subjects such as the Internet, cloning, warfare, fascism and Virtual Reality are placed within a broad theoretical context which explores how humanity might, through technology, establish a more ethical relationship with the world.... Read more
1. Introduction: In the Service of the Machine? 2. Beyond Enframing: Heideffer and the Question concerning Technology 3. Walter Benjamin and Technology: Social Form and the Recovery of Aura 4. Futurism and the Politics of a Technological Being in the World 5. Between Totalitarianism and Heterogeneity: Lyotard and the Postmodern Condition 6. Paul Virilio: Overcoming Inertia? 7. Psychoanalysis Ysis,, Cyberspace and its Discontents: Turkle, Zizek, Brennan 8. Conclusion
Biography
Simon Cooper is an editor of Arena journal, and teaches in Communications at Monash University
