Memory Trade
A Prehistory of Cyberculture
130 pages, parution le 10/08/1998
Résumé
Everything we understand by the term
culture is rapidly changing. Computer technology is creating
a new kind of public, a cyberculture with all its utopian
and apolocalyptic possibilities. But is that new? Much of
the popular debate neglects cyberculture's historical
context. The official history begins in the 19th century,
with Charles Babbage, encomapssing the evolution of
telecommunications, the egalitarian dream of the global
village, and the milatary-industrial complex along the way.
Yet this ignores the deeper, pre-history of technological
transformations of culture that are everywhere felt but
nowhere seen in the telematic landscape of the late 20th
century. Cyberculture, in this respect, is an extension,
rather than innovationm of human engagement with technology,
in particular with communication and information
technologies.
culture is rapidly changing. Computer technology is creating
a new kind of public, a cyberculture with all its utopian
and apolocalyptic possibilities. But is that new? Much of
the popular debate neglects cyberculture's historical
context. The official history begins in the 19th century,
with Charles Babbage, encomapssing the evolution of
telecommunications, the egalitarian dream of the global
village, and the milatary-industrial complex along the way.
Yet this ignores the deeper, pre-history of technological
transformations of culture that are everywhere felt but
nowhere seen in the telematic landscape of the late 20th
century. Cyberculture, in this respect, is an extension,
rather than innovationm of human engagement with technology,
in particular with communication and information
technologies.
A work of technology, SIZE="-1">Memory Trade
scrapes
away the surfaces of the contemporary world to detect
the
sedimentary traces of the past, a past that inflects
the
present with the echoes of ancient, unresolved
philosophical
questions about the relationships between humans and
technology, creativity and artifice, reality and
representations of reality.
Memory Trade SIZE="-1"> is an exploration, in
text and image, of the
unconscious of cyberculture, its silent, secret
pre-history.
L'auteur - Darren Tofts
Darren Tofts is Chair of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Gordon and Breach |
| Auteur(s) | Darren Tofts, Murray McKeich |
| Parution | 10/08/1998 |
| Nb. de pages | 130 |
| Format | 24,5 x 26,5 |
| Poids | 600g |
| EAN13 | 9789057041815 |
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