Technoromanticism : digital narrative, holism, and the romance of the real /

The author explores the spectrum of romantic narrative that pervades the digital age, from McLuhan's utopian vision of social reintegration by electronic communications to the claims of cyberspace to offer new realities. Populating these narratives are cyborgs, computerized agents, avatars and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coyne, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.
Colección:Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Temas:
Information technology > Philosophy.
Holism.
Romanticism.
Technologie de l'information > Philosophie.
Holisme.
Romantisme.
holism.
romanticism (form of expression)
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
Holism
Romanticism
Narrativität
Das Romantische
Virtuelle Realität
Holismus
Informationstechnik
Computers.
Informatietechnologie.
Cultuur.
Information Technology.
Electrical & Computer Engineering.
Engineering & Applied Sciences.
Informationstechnik > Kultur.
Kultur > Informationstechnik.
Computerkultur.
holisme > technologie de l'information.
informatique > société (milieu humain) > technologie de l'information.
communication > informatique > société (milieu humain) > technologie de l'information.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Unity: how it narratives attempt to transcend the material realm: digital utopias
  • Cybernetic rapture
  • Multiplicity: the empiricist tradition of realism, and its critics: the empiricist legacy
  • The symbolic order
  • Pragmatics of cyberspace
  • Ineffability: how contemporary narratives of fractured identities challenge technoromanticism: Oedipus in cyberspace
  • Schizophrenia and suspicion
  • Technoromantic narratives.

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