Derrick De Kerckhove: The Skin of Culture: Investigating the New Electronic Reality (1995/1997)

This is a bold vision of the electronic media and the nature of reality in a world increasingly wired to technology. It proposes and explores concepts such as: whether democracy is outmoded and must be redesigned to reflect how technology affects power structures; whether the electronic media have extended our psychology as well as our nervous systems and our bodies; whether art must redress the balance with science and reclaim technology; and whether electronic media are reversing the effects of language, literacy and the alphabet, and whether this is a good thing.

Editor Christopher Dewdney
Publisher Kogan Page Publishers, 1997
ISBN 074942480X, 9780749424800
226 pages

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