03352nam 2200649 a 450 991077899430332120161219111354.00-7619-5900-91-283-88053-91-84860-920-50-585-38370-7(CKB)111004366769400(EBL)1024100(OCoLC)823384460(SSID)ssj0000138979(PQKBManifestationID)11158226(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000138979(PQKBWorkID)10101089(PQKB)11790691(MiAaPQ)EBC1024100(OCoLC)1007858535(StDuBDS)EDZ0000063801(Au-PeEL)EBL1024100(CaPaEBR)ebr10567172(CaONFJC)MIL419303(EXLCZ)9911100436676940020120326d1998 fy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrDigital aesthetics[electronic resource] /Sean CubittLondon SAGEc19981 online resource (xiii, 172 p.)Theory, culture & societyDescription based upon print version of record.1-4462-5034-2 0-7619-5899-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 EffectsThe 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 FlowThe Human BiochipJunk DNA: Morphologies of Multimedia; Anonymous History: Globalisation and Diaspora; References; IndexThis 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.Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)Computers and civilizationHuman-computer interactionComputers and civilization.Human-computer interaction.303.4834Cubitt Sean1953-1139729StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910778994303321Digital aesthetics3705713UNINA