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Culture + Technology

A Primer

By: Jennifer Daryl Slack,John Macgregor Wise

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Culture + Technology

A Primer

By: Jennifer Daryl Slack,John Macgregor Wise

Culture + Technology is an essential guide to the fascinating history of these debates, and offers new perspectives that give readers the tools they need to make informed decisions about the role of technology in our lives. In clear and compelling language, Slack and Wise untangle and expose the cultural assumptions that underlie our thinking about technology, stories so deeply held we often don't recognize their influence. The book considers the perceived inevitability of technological advance and our myths about progress. It also looks at sources of resistance to these stories from the Luddites of the 19th century to the Unabomber in our own time. Slack and Wise help readers sift through the confusions about culture and technology that arise in their own everyday lives."--BOOK JACKET.

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248

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Peter Lang

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0820450073

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9780820450070

Exploring Technology and Social Space

By: John Macgregor Wise

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Exploring Technology and Social Space

By: John Macgregor Wise

Examining the fundamental assumptions that we hold about the role of technology in our lives, Technology and Social Space describes the possibilities and limitations of human agency within the new wired world. In a patient and thoughtful style, author J. Macgregor Wise elaborates a critical, philosophical, and epistemological framework from which to better understand our relations to technology and social space. The book argues that most treatments of technology and society arise from a modernist episteme (or set of assumptions) that radically separates humans from technologies, focusing on questions of determination and identity. In an attempt to provide a clearer view of technology and social space, the book explores alternative perspectives centered on notions of agency. Working from within these alternative epistemes, the book turns its attention to the burgeoning technological assemblage of communication and information characterized by the Internet and cyberspace. Technology and Social Space draws on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and the actor-network sociology of Bruno Latour, and brings together diverse examples from cyborg films, television, museums, cyberspace, and debates over a New World Information and Communication Order. Ultimately, the book describes the possibilities and limitation of human agency within the new wired world. This groundbreaking volume will be of interest to professionals and academics in popular culture, media studies, mass communication, and sociology.

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233

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SAGE

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0761904220

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9780761904229

Deleuze and Psychology

Philosophical Provocations to Psychological Practices

By: Maria Nichterlein,John R. Morss

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Deleuze and Psychology

Philosophical Provocations to Psychological Practices

By: Maria Nichterlein,John R. Morss

An increasing number of scholars, students and practitioners of psychology are becoming intrigued by the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and of Felix Guattari. This book aims to be a critical introduction to these ideas, which have so much to offer psychology in terms of new directions as well as critique. Deleuze was one of the most prominent philosophers of the 20th century and a figure whose ideas are increasingly influential throughout the humanities and social sciences. His work, particularly his collaborations with psychoanalyst Guattari, focused on the articulation of a philosophy of difference. Rejecting mainstream continental philosophy just as much as the orthodox analytical metaphysics of the English-speaking world, Deleuze proposed a positive and passionate alternative, bursting at the seams with new concepts and new transformations. This book overviews the philosophical contribution of Deleuze including the project he developed with Guattari. It goes on to explore the application of these ideas in three major dimensions of psychology: its unit of analysis, its method and its applications to the clinic. Deleuze and Psychology will be of interest to students and scholars of psychology and those interested in continental philosophy, as well as psychological practitioners and therapists.

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188

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Routledge

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1317584686

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9781317584681

Co-creating Videogames

By: John Banks

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Co-creating Videogames

By: John Banks

This book explores key contemporary issues in participatory media culture, including questions of technology, labour and professional expertise.

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201

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A&C Black

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184966496X

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9781849664967

SuperVision

An Introduction to the Surveillance Society

By: John Gilliom,Torin Monahan

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SuperVision

An Introduction to the Surveillance Society

By: John Gilliom,Torin Monahan

We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed—and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing field of surveillance studies, SuperVision uses examples drawn from everyday technologies to show how surveillance is used, who is using it, and how it affects our world. Beginning with a look at the activities and technologies that connect most people to the surveillance matrix, from identification cards to GPS devices in our cars to Facebook, John Gilliom and Torin Monahan invite readers to critically explore surveillance as it relates to issues of law, power, freedom, and inequality. Even if you avoid using credit cards and stay off Facebook, they show, going to work or school inevitably embeds you in surveillance relationships. Finally, they discuss the more obvious forms of surveillance, including the security systems used at airports and on city streets, which both epitomize contemporary surveillance and make impossibly grand promises of safety and security. Gilliom and Monahan are among the foremost experts on surveillance and society, and, with SuperVision, they offer an immensely accessible and engaging guide, giving readers the tools to understand and to question how deeply surveillance has been woven into the fabric of our everyday lives.

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200

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University of Chicago Press

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0226924459

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9780226924458

Virilio Dictionary

By: John Armitage

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Virilio Dictionary

By: John Armitage

The first dictionary dedicated to the work of Paul Virilio, offering you clear and contemporary direction through the work of Virilio, the French critic of art and technology.

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264

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748682317

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9780748682317

Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

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Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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470

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385263565

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9783385263567

Mutative Media

Communication Technologies and Power Relations in the Past, Present, and Futures

By: James A. Dator,John A. Sweeney,Aubrey M. Yee

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Mutative Media

Communication Technologies and Power Relations in the Past, Present, and Futures

By: James A. Dator,John A. Sweeney,Aubrey M. Yee

Mutative Media is a sweeping examination of how communication technologies have contributed to changes in people’s thoughts and actions, and thus in the power structures of societies, in the past, at present, and in four alternative futures. We start by surveying what is generally known about the emergence of human language and speech that has enabled humans to extend their organizing abilities beyond that of other hominids. We then review research on the emergence of signs, symbols, and eventually writing, which led to new ways of thinking, acting, and organizing in scribal societies and vastly extended human influence globally. We consider the impact of the printing press in Europe, the Middle East, China, and Korea that led to various ways of thinking and organizing in modern societies, and conclude our historical survey with a discussion of the emergence and impact of electric and electronic communication technologies from the nineteenth century to the present. After a brief overview of what “futures studies” is and is not, based on our extensive experience in the field, we present four generic alternative futures, and discuss a prototype of a hybrid, mixed-reality game designed to enable players to experience the power and potential of new communication technologies within four very different environments and conditions. We think you will be intrigued by our surprising findings and what they may mean for future generations!

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Springer

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3319078097

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9783319078090

Book's by John Macgregor Wise

Culture + Technology

Culture + Technology

Exploring Technology and Social Space

Exploring Technology and Social Space

Deleuze and Psychology

Deleuze and Psychology

Co-creating Videogames

Co-creating Videogames

SuperVision

SuperVision

Virilio Dictionary

Virilio Dictionary

Doggett's New York City Directory

Doggett's New York City Directory

Mutative Media

Mutative Media

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