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Technoromanticism : digital narrative, holism, and the romance of the real / Richard Coyne.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: x, 398 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262032600
  • 9780262032605
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.46
LOC classification:
  • T58.5 .C687 1999
Contents:
Series Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Unity: How IT Narratives Attempt to Transcend the Material Realm -- 1. Digital Utopias -- 2. Cybernetic Rapture -- Multiplicity: The Empiricist Tradition of Realism, and Its Critics -- 3. The Empiricist Legacy -- 4. The Symbolic Order -- 5. Pragmatics of Cyberspace -- Ineffability: How Contemporary Narratives of Fractured Identities Challenge Technoromanticism -- 6. Oedipus in Cyberspace -- 7. Schizophrenia and Suspicion -- 8. Technoromantic Narratives -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: The author explores the spectrum of romantic narrative that pervades the digital age, from McLuhan's utopian vision of social reintegration by electronic communications to the claims of cyberspace to offer new realities. Populating these narratives are cyborgs, computerized agents, avatars and characters that have putative digital identities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Unity: How IT Narratives Attempt to Transcend the Material Realm -- 1. Digital Utopias -- 2. Cybernetic Rapture -- Multiplicity: The Empiricist Tradition of Realism, and Its Critics -- 3. The Empiricist Legacy -- 4. The Symbolic Order -- 5. Pragmatics of Cyberspace -- Ineffability: How Contemporary Narratives of Fractured Identities Challenge Technoromanticism -- 6. Oedipus in Cyberspace -- 7. Schizophrenia and Suspicion -- 8. Technoromantic Narratives -- Notes -- References -- Index.

The author explores the spectrum of romantic narrative that pervades the digital age, from McLuhan's utopian vision of social reintegration by electronic communications to the claims of cyberspace to offer new realities. Populating these narratives are cyborgs, computerized agents, avatars and characters that have putative digital identities.

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