Digital aesthetics [[electronic resource] /] / Sean Cubitt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454803403321
• Autore: Cubitt Sean <1953->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : SAGE, c1998
• ISBN: 0-7619-5900-9; 1-283-88053-9; 1-84860-920-5; 0-585-38370-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (189 p.)
• Collana: Theory, culture & society
• Disciplina: 303.48/34
• Soggetti: Computers and civilization; Human-computer interaction; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Preface: The Universal Touring Machine; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Reading the Interface; Cybercafé; Hypertext and the Colonial Dialectic; A Good Read; The Library; Browsing and Netsurfing: Playful Reading; After Privacy: The Politics of Intimacy; Writing Materials; Chapter 2 - Virtual Realism: Machine Perception and the Global Image; Travelling Light; Critique of Cyborg Vision; The Anarchy and Society of Perceptions; Visual Rhetoric: The Socialisation of Perception; Remote Sensing: Global Images; Deconstructing the Map; The Ethics of Utopia; Chapter 3 - Spatial Effects; The Trouble with HubbleZeno's Paradox: Interminable Identities; From Orient to Outer Space: Cosmic Commodities; Perspective as Special Effect; From Outer Space to Cyberspace; Hacker Transvestism and the Tourist Mouse; Chapter 4 - Pygmalion: Silence, Sound and Space; Silence; Pure Hearing; Recording: The Mobilisation of Sound; Transmission: Silent Listening, Silent Reading; The Incoherence of the Soundtrack; Dispersed Spaces: Art Geography; Chapter 5 - Turbulence: Network Morphology and the Corporate Cyborg; Network Subjectivity and the Secret Honour of the Posts; A Brief History of Flow; The Human BiochipJunk DNA: Morphologies of Multimedia; Anonymous History: Globalisation and Diaspora; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This work traces the globalisation of the digital medium, and enquires into its effects on subjectivity and sociality. The author argues for a democracy beyond the free market and the global corporation.