Exploring Technology and Social Space - Communications and Agency At the End of the 20th Century

This volume offers a critical, philosophical and epistemological framework to understand better our relations to technology and social space.

John MacGregor Wise: focuses on the burgeoning technological assemblage of communication and information characterized by the Internet and cyberspace; draws on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and the actor-network sociology of Latour; and brings together diverse examples from cyborg films, television, museums, cyberspace and debates over a new world information and communication order. In the last chapter, the possibilities and limitations of human agency within the new wired world are described.

List of contents

EPISTEME
Introduction
Slouching towards Tralfamadore
The Modern Episteme
Beyond the Modern Episteme
Space and Agency in the Land of the Cyborgs
Living in a Deleuzian World
ASSEMBLAGE
Making Television, Making History
AT&T Builds the Bomb
Communications
From SDI to NII through the MSI
Welcome to Your Assemblage
It¿s a Small World After All
Rethinking the NIICO and the GII
Conclusion
Technology is License to Forget

Product details

• Authors: Wise, J Macgregor Wise, J. (John) Macgregor Wise, J. Macgregor Wise, John Macgregor Wise, John Madrigal Wise
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.10.1997
• EAN: 9780761904229
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-0422-9
• No. of pages: 231
• Series: New Media Cultures; New Media Cultures
• Subjects: Guides; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science