Real Space - The fate of physical presence in the digital age, on and off planet

About the author

Paul Levinson's The Soft Edge (1997) and Digital McLuhan (1999) have been the subject of major articles in The New York Times and Wired and have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and six other languages. Digital McLuhan won the Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship, and Levinson's science fiction novel The Silk Code won the 2000 Locus Award for Best First Novel. Additional science fiction novels include Borrowed Tides (2001) and The Consciousness Plague (2002). He has appeared on 'Inside Edition', CNN, The History Channel, CSPAN, Fox News, NPR, the BBC, and the CBC. He was President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, 1998-2001, and is Professor and Chair of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City.

Summary

In an inquiry that ranges from robots to religion, Paul Levinson asks why there is a deep-seated human desire to know what's "out there". Full of examples, "Realspace" asks some searching questions about space and the way we think about it.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Levinson, Levinson Paul
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2003
• EAN: 9780415277433
• ISBN: 978-0-415-27743-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 117 mm x 170 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 520 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Humanities, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy