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Culture and Technology
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We are 'going virtual' in more and more areas of our lives - from shopping to education, filing systems to love affairs. How can we assess the relationship between technology and culture when culture is so imbued with technology? This clear, concise and readable text aims to offer the student a one-stop guide through this complex and slippery terrain. Introducing a wealth of theoretical perspectives in a lucid and engaging style and covering a range of topical, challenging and intriguing examples - from cyborgs to digital art - it will be an essential text for everyone wanting to make sense of crucial forces of change on contemporary culture.
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Information
forces.
They
function
quite
differently
because
of
the
way
that
they
connect
to
the
rest
of
the
world.
To
sum
this
up,
sometimes
it
is
more
important
to
think
of
the
actual
function
of
a
technology
–
materially
and
culturally
–
than
its
form.
Perhaps
one
of
the
reasons
that
contemporary
life
seems
so
determined
by
technology
is
not
as
fundamentally
technological
as
it
might
seem.
It
is
rather
that
our
thought
and
culture
have
finally
aligned
themselves
with
flow,
become
even
obsessed
by
it
–
in
other
words,
our
thought
and
culture
now
align
themselves
with
that
which
technology
does
best.
How
do
you
make
people
flow?
You
invent
traffic
or
escalators.
How
do
you
fly?
You
work
the
flows
of
air
turbulence
over
a
wing.
How
do
you
win
wars?
You
work
with
logistical
flows.
Most
of
the
technologies
developed
in
the
32
CULTURE
AND
TECHNOLOGY
Figure
1.1
Jane
Edden,
Lemon
Field
,
2001
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘Culture’ and ‘Technology’
- 1 Theoretical Frameworks
- 2 Art and Technology
- 3 Digital Aesthetics: Cultural Effects of New Media Technologies
- 4 Science Fictions
- 5 Cyborgs: the Body, Information and Technology
- 6 Technology, Thought and Consciousness
- 7 Getting Wired: War, Commerce and the Nation-State
- 8 Living with the Virtual
- Bibliography
- Index