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Book: George Pattinson 30 Aug 2000
The Later Heidegger
Martin Heidegger is one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings are notoriously difficult: they both require and reward careful reading.
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Book: Wise, Richard 1 Dec 1999
Multimedia
A critical introduction
Are new media technologies designed to make citizens better informed and create new wealth?
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Book: Paul Levinson 1 Oct 1998
The Soft Edge
A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution
According to Paul Levinson, it would be improper to portray information technology as the cause of change in our world. However, Levinson clarifies that its role in enabling change can hardly be...
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Book: Donna Haraway 12 Dec 1990
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The Reinvention of Nature
A powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures"...
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Book: Raymond Barglow 14 Jul 1994
The Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information
Computers, Dolphins and Dreams
The author draws on the experiences, hopes and dreams of computer users to explore the personal, psychological and philosophical implications for a post-industrial information technology-led society.
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Raymond Barglow
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Book: Chris Hables Gray 13 Aug 1998
Postmodern War
The New politics of Conflict
Postmodern War provides a sweeping vision of the history of war and the emergence of its specifically late 20th-century form.
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Mike Sharples
Mike Sharples is Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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Book: Benoît Marchal 14 Dec 1999
XML by example
second edition
XML by Example is a hands-on guide for those who already know the basics of HTML authoring but want a complete introduction to the exciting new world of XML. It lives up to its title, with plenty of...
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Book: Donald Norman 21 Apr 1994
Things That Make Us Smart
Defending human attributes in the age of the machine
In this highly readable book, Norman, author of Turn Signals Are the Facial Expres sions of Automobiles (1992), offers an intriguing look at the nature and characteristics of human intelligence.
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Book: José van Dyck 11 Mar 1995
Manufacturing Babies and Public Consent
Debating the New Reproductive Technologies
Jose Van Dyck sketches a map of the public debate on new reproductive technologies as it has evolved in the USA and Britain since 1978.
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Book: Tom Vermulst 1 Jan 1991
Het Anti-Computerboek
Satirical description of side effects of computer use in society.
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Roger Malina
Roger Malina is an astrophysicist at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille CNRS in France were he is a member of the Observational Cosmology Research Group involved in the study of dark matter...
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Book: Frank Popper 1 Jan 2007
From Technological to Virtual Art
Frank Popper traces the development of immersive, interactive new media art from its historical antecedents through today's digital, multimedia, and networked art.
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Peter Lunenfeld
A critic and theorist of digital media. He is a professor in the Design Media Arts department at UCLA, director of the Institute for Technology and Aesthetics (ITA), and founder of mediawork: The...
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Michele White
Michele White is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Tulane University.
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Richard Coyne
Professor of Architectural Computing at the University of Edinburgh where he is Head of the School of Arts, Culture and Environment, which covers the disciplines of architecture, history of art and...
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Book: John Thackara 1 Dec 2005
In the Bubble
Designing in a Complex World
We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his...
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Book: William Mitchell 1 Aug 1996
City of Bits
Space, Place, and the Infobahn
Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the...
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Stephen Wilson
Professor of Conceptual/Information Arts, Art Department, San Francisco State University.
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Stephen Wilson 1 Apr 2003
Information Arts
Intersections of Art, Science and Technology
In this rich compendium, Wilson offers the first comprehensive survey of international artists who incorporate concepts and research from mathematics, the physical sciences, biology, kinetics
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Book: Alexander Galloway 1 Apr 2004
Protocol
How Control exists after Decentralization
In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control, not freedom, and that the controlling power lies in the technical protocols that make network connections...
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Ollivier Dyens
An artist, an essayist and a poet.
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Book: Ollivier Dyens 1 Nov 2001
Metal and Flesh
The evolution of man: technology takes over
"Are we not men," bark the creatures residing in H.G. Wells's fantasy island, and cultural critic Ollivier Dyens looks into the issue in his book Metal and Flesh. Arguing that culture has redefined...