1st Edition
Times of the Technoculture From the Information Society to the Virtual Life
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century. The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and consider the... Read more
Introduction: the changing technoscape PART I Techno-visions 1 A cultural history of Pandaemonium 2 Engaging with Luddism 3 The hollowing of progress PART II Genealogies of information 4 The long history of the information revolution 5 The cybernetic imagination of capitalism 6 Propaganda: the hidden face of information PART III The politics of cyberspace 7 Cyberwars: the military information revolution 8 Education as knowledge and discipline 9 Deconstructing the academy: the new production of human capital PART IV Living in virtual space 10 Prospects of a virtual culture 11 The virtual pacification of space
Biography
Kevin Robins is Professor of Cultural Geography at the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Newcastle. Frank Webster is Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham.
