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This page was lifted from the table of contents of the following
book:
RESISTING THE VIRTUAL LIFE- The Culture and Politics of
Information
Edited by James Brook and Iain A. Boal City Lights
Books
ISBN: 0872862992 .
Topics:
THE NEW INFORMATION ENCLOSURES
THE NEW INFORMATION ENCLOSURES
A Flow of Monsters: Luddism and Virtual Technologies
Iain A. Boal
Proposes a historic context
for the new machinery of domination, assaying the possibilities and limits of
resistance against further virtuality and paranoia.
The Global Information Highway: Project for an Ungovernable
World
Herbert I. Schiller
Scrutinizes
Washington’s proposal to make the information superhighway a world project-- an
initiative that extends a half-century-old U.S. effort to achieve global
information mastery.
It's Discrimination, Stupid!
Oscar H. Gandy Jr.
Examines how personal information is
gathered and how it is used to extend control over the distribution of options
available to citizens, employees, and consumers.
Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the
Electronic Frontier
Laura Miller
Argues
that the "electronic frontier" metaphor tends to impose on women "on line" the
same all-too-familiar, invidious, traditional feminine identities.
From Internet to Information Superhighway
Howard Besser
Assesses the likely future of on-line
information flows: passive consumption, bland cultural productions, pay-per
access, and reduction of public space and unprogrammed experience.
Media Activism and Radical Democracy
Jesse Drew
A pioneer of"guerrilla television" places his
experience in the history of communications media used as a democratizing tool.
Making Technology Democratic
Richard E. Sclove
Shows how technological systems in
effect legislate social life and sets out principles for a politics of
technology that deepens rather than diminishes participatory democracy.
Soldier, Cyborg, Citizen
Kevin
Robins and Les Levidow
Examine the psychotic splitting -- induced by
military and civilian cyborg technologies -- that leads to the paranoia and
phantasies of omnipotence like those displayed during the Gulf War.
Body, Brain, and Communication
George Lakoff interviewed by Iain A. Boal
Deconstructs
the "conduit metaphor" of human communication and understanding, whereby the
rich, embodied experience of language is travestied by its reduction to circuits
of information.
Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming
Life
Ellen Ullman
Gives a practitioner's
account of the masculinist world of software engineers who, in living "close to
the machine," are asynchronous with the rest of humanity.
Sade and Cyberspace
John
Simmons
Contrasts the emotionally empty realm of Cartesian rationalism
with the Sadean space of the real, contemplative
body.
DEGRADING
WORK
Info Fetishism
Doug
Henwood
Debunks the myth that in the "information economy"
symbol-mongers will rule and reemphasizes the materiality of information and its
role in the circulation of commodities.
Digital Palsy: RSI and Restructuring
Capital
R. Dennis Hayes
Lifts the shroud
of ignorance and denial around the intensified use of the new "knowledge
machines" to reveal an exponential rise in computer-related injuries.
Computers, Thinking, and Schools in "the New World Economic
Order"
Monty Neill
Exposes the fallacies
underlying the computerization of schools and offers an analysis of the role of
education of workers in a world dominated by transnational corporations.
The Aesthetic of the Computer
Daniel Harris
Looks into the screen past the machine's
utility and, in the decor of screen-savers, detects the enthralling boredom of
the office.
Banalities of Information
Marina McDougall
Brings cyberspace down to earth in a
photo essay that looks at the integration of communications technology into
everyday life.
The Garden of Merging Paths
Rebecca Solnit
Beginning with the Winchester rifle and the
maze of the Winchester Mystery House, maps the metaphors and ecologies of the
transformation of Silicon Valley from orchards to high-tech industrial park.
The Shape of Truth to Come: New Media and Knowledge
Chris Carlsson
Speculates on the odds of
a rich, less mediated life breaking through the web of virtual interactivity
woven by "the integrated spectacle:'
Drowning by MicroGallery
Chris
Riding
Wanders, without particular nostalgia for canvas and pigment,
through the reproduction of the British National Gallery on CD-ROM.
In the Tracks of Jurassic Park
Phil Tippett interviewed by Iain A. Boal
Discusses the
impact of new digital technologies on the craft of animation and special effects
in the motion-picture industry.
Reading and Riding with Borges
James Brook
With Borges as guide, threads his way through
the hell of information and the labyrinth of hypertext to... the book.