Verena Andermatt Conley (ed.): Rethinking Technologies (1993)
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Grounded on the assumption that the relationship between the arts and the sciences is dictated by technology, the essays in Rethinking Technologies explore trends in contemporary thought that have been changing our awareness of science, technology, and the arts.
Contributors: Teresa Brennan, Patrick Clancy, Verena Andermatt Conley, Scott Durham, Thierry de Duve, Françoise Gaillard, Félix Guattari, N. Katherine Hayles, Alberto Moreiras, Jean-Luc Nancy, Avital Ronell, Ingrid Scheibler, Paul Virilio.
Edited by Verena Andermatt Conley on behalf of the Miami Theory Collective (Oxford, Ohio)
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1993
ISBN 0816622159, 9780816622153
248 pages
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Comment (0)David D. Friedman: Future Imperfect. Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · artificial intelligence, biotechnology, drugs, freedom, nanotechnology, surveillance, technology, virtual reality
“Future Imperfect describes and discusses a variety of technological revolutions that might happen over the next few decades, their implications, and how to deal with them. Topics range from encryption and surveillance through biotechnology and nanotechnology to life extension, mind drugs, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. One theme of the book is that the future is radically uncertain. Technological changes already begun could lead to more or less privacy than we have ever known, freedom or slavery, effective immortality or the elimination of our species, and radical changes in life, marriage, law, medicine, work, and play. We do not know which future will arrive, but it is unlikely to be much like the past. It is worth starting to think about it now.
• Comments on radical changes in life, marriage, law, medicine, work, and play • Covers many different technologies and the different futures they might bring • Focuses on what world could be like if various technological advances continue to develop and how we might adjust”
Publisher Cambridge University Press, 2008
ISBN 0521877326, 9780521877329
351 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-3-9)
Comment (1)Peter Lunenfeld (ed.): The Digital Dialectic. New Essays on New Media (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · collage, cyberspace, digital cinema, hypertext, image, interactivity, internet, pornography, screen, technology, virtual reality
The Digital Dialectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. The key concept is the digital dialectic: a method to ground the insights of theory in the constraints of practice. The essays move beyond journalistic reportage and hype into serious but accessible discussion of new technologies, new media, and new cultural forms.
Publisher MIT Press, 2000
ISBN 0262621371, 9780262621373
320 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-24)
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