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Virtual Futures Cyberotics, Technology and Posthuman Pragmatism
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Virtual Futures explores the ideas that the future lies in its ability to articulate the consequences of an increasingly synthetic and virtual world. New technologies like cyberspace, the internet, and Chaos theory are often discussed in the context of technology and its potential to liberate or in terms of technophobia. This collection examines both these ideas while also charting a new and... Read more
Preface: Virtual Futures Eric J. Cassidy Part 1. The Information War Hakim Bey Part 2. Cyberotics, Theses on the Cyberotics of History: Venus in Microsoft, remix Stephen Pfohl Coming Across the Future Sadie Plant All New Gen VNS Matrix Part 3. Cyberculture Singularities Telepathy and Illiteracy: Alphabetic Consciousness and the Age of Cyberotics David Porush Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason Manuel De Landa Part 4. Anarcho-Materialism Cybergothic Nick Land Epidermal History and Speed Politics Matteo Mandarini Black Ice Iain Hamilton Grant Part 5. Posthuman Pragmatism Autogedon Stephan Metcalf Da Body Stelarc Postscript: Ground Zero Joan Broadhurst Dixon.
Biography
Joan Broadhurst Dixon is a lecturer in Social and Cultural Theory at the University of Derby. She teaches a course on Post-Human Thought. Eric Cassidy is doing research on the relationship between Deleuze and Pynchon at Warwick University. He co-ordinated the Virual Futures 1994 and 1995 Conferences at Warwick University.
