TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coyne,Richard
TI  - Technoromanticism: digital narrative, holism, and the romance of the real 
T2  - Leonardo
SN  - 0262032600
AV  - T58.5 .C687 1999
U1  - 306.46 
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Holism
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Computers and civilization
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -