Simulation and Social Theory

Informationen zum Autor Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths! University of London; Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee. His publications include Timeshift: On Video Culture! Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture! Digital Aesthetics! Simulation and Social Theory! The Cinema Effect and EcoMedia. He is the series editor for Leonardo Books at MIT Press. Current research is on the history and philosophy of visual technologies! on media art history and on ecocriticism and mediation. Klappentext This insightful book is the first to critically examine the ideas of some of the key thinkers of simulation. It addresses the work of Baudrillard! Debord! Virilio and Eco! clarifying their arguments by referring to the intellectual and social worlds each emerged from distilling what is important from their discussions. The book argues for a critical and selective use of the concept of simulation. Like the idea of ideology! simulation is a political theory! but it has also become a deeply pessimistic theory of the end of history and the impossibility of positive change. Through a series of reflections on the meaning of theme parks! warfare and computer modelling! Sean Cubitt demonstrates the strengths and limitations of the simulation thesis. Zusammenfassung This insightful book is the first to critically examine the ideas of some of the key thinkers of simulation. It addresses the work of Baudrillard! Debord! Virilio and Eco! clarifying their arguments by referring to the intellectual and social worlds each emerged from distilling what is important from their discussions. The book argues for a critical and selective use of the concept of simulation. Like the idea of ideology! simulation is a political theory! but it has also become a deeply pessimistic theory of the end of history and the impossibility of positive change. Through a series of reflections on the meaning of theme parks! warfare and computer modelling! Sean Cubitt demonstrates the strengths and limitations of the simulation thesis Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Long TermPART ONE: THEORIESValues! Signs and SubjectsTechnology! Information and ReasonThe Poetics of PessimismMaking Sense of SimulationPART TWO: CASESDisney World CultureWar in the Persian GulfWorking with ComputersConclusionPessimism of the Intellect! Optimism of the Will ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sean Cubitt
• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 22.12.2000
• EAN: 9780761961093
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-6109-3
• Pagine: 192
• Serie: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society; Theory, Culture & Society (Har; Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society; Published in Association with
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche