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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction: `Culture' and `Technology' |
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3 | (2) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (3) |
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9 | (2) |
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Technological Determinism |
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11 | (2) |
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13 | (2) |
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Baudrillard and the Technologies of Simulacra |
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15 | (2) |
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17 | (5) |
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22 | (6) |
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Knowing the World Differently: Poststructuralist Thought |
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28 | (2) |
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Going with the Flow: `Machinic' Thought |
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30 | (6) |
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Virilio and the Technologies of Speed |
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36 | (3) |
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39 | (27) |
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40 | (1) |
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Artists Represent Technology |
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41 | (2) |
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43 | (4) |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (3) |
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Modern to Postmodern: Pop Art |
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51 | (4) |
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55 | (2) |
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Critical Approaches to Postmodernism |
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57 | (2) |
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59 | (2) |
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Continuity or Discontinuity? |
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61 | (2) |
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63 | (3) |
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Digital Aesthetics: Cultural Effects of New Media Technologies |
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66 | (29) |
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Authorship, Intellectual Property and Technology |
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67 | (6) |
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73 | (2) |
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75 | (9) |
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Digital Aesthetics: New Labels for the New Aesthetic |
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84 | (3) |
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New Media and Digital Aesthetics |
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87 | (3) |
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The Digital, the Future and the Past |
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90 | (5) |
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95 | (20) |
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The Beginnings of Science Fiction: Frankenstein |
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98 | (1) |
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99 | (3) |
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102 | (2) |
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104 | (5) |
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109 | (3) |
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Hyperreal Science Fiction |
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112 | (3) |
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Cyborgs: the Body, Information and Technology |
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115 | (27) |
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116 | (2) |
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118 | (2) |
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Information as the New `Spirit'? |
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120 | (1) |
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From Postmodern to Posthuman |
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121 | (5) |
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126 | (3) |
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129 | (2) |
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131 | (2) |
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Material Immortality and `Genethics' |
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133 | (4) |
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Radical Futures and `Gray Goo' |
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137 | (5) |
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Technology, Thought and Consciousness |
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142 | (27) |
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143 | (4) |
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Computers as Universal Machines |
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147 | (4) |
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How Artificial is Intelligence? |
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151 | (5) |
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Technology Affects Thought |
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156 | (2) |
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158 | (5) |
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Heidegger and the `Question Concerning Technology' |
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163 | (4) |
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167 | (2) |
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Getting Wired: War, Commerce and the Nation-State |
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169 | (27) |
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169 | (1) |
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Sovereignty and Technical Control |
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170 | (2) |
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War, Technology and the Question of Control |
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172 | (2) |
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174 | (2) |
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176 | (1) |
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Control, Complexity and Computing |
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177 | (2) |
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179 | (2) |
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The Network and the Fate of the Nation-state |
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181 | (2) |
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183 | (3) |
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186 | (2) |
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188 | (8) |
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196 | (14) |
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Machines and the Three Ecologies |
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196 | (4) |
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Third Nature and the Natural Contract |
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200 | (2) |
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Shifting Communities and `Cyberdemocracy' |
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202 | (3) |
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Computers, Knowledge and the Petit Recit |
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205 | (5) |
Bibliography |
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210 | (9) |
Index |
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