Simulation and social theory / Sean Cubitt.
Material type: TextSeries: Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)Publisher: London : SAGE, 2001Description: 172 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0761961097
- 9780761961093
- 0761961100
- 9780761961109
- 301.01
Contents:
Introduction The Long Term -- Part One. Theories -- Values, Signs and Subjects -- Technology, Information and Reason -- The Poetics of Pessimism -- Making Sense of Simulation -- Part Two. Cases -- Disney World Culture -- War in the Persian Gulf -- Working with Computers -- Conclusion -- Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 301.01 CUB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A409528B |
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301.01 CRA Classical social theory / | 301.01 CRO The art of sociological argument / | 301.01 CRO The art of sociological argument / | 301.01 CUB Simulation and social theory / | 301.01 CUL Culture, power, place : explorations in critical anthropology / | 301.01 CUR Current perspectives in social theory. v. 16, 1996 / | 301.01 CUR Current perspectives in social theory. v. 17, 1997 / |
Author is Professor of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-167) and index.
Introduction The Long Term -- Part One. Theories -- Values, Signs and Subjects -- Technology, Information and Reason -- The Poetics of Pessimism -- Making Sense of Simulation -- Part Two. Cases -- Disney World Culture -- War in the Persian Gulf -- Working with Computers -- Conclusion -- Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will.
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