Prefiguring cyberculture : an intellectual history / edited by Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, and Alessio Cavallaro. - xiv, 322 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Introduction: On Mutability -- I. Robot: AI, Alife and Cyborgs -- Synthetic Meditations: Cogito in the Matrix / The Instruments of Life: Frankenstein and Cyberculture / Imaginable Computers: Affects and Intelligence in Alan Turing / Marrying the Premodern to the Postmodern: Computers and Organisms after WWII / Cassandra Among the Cyborgs, or, the Silicon Termination Notice / Cyberquake: Haraway's Manifesto / Virtuality: Webworlds and Cyberspaces -- Reality Tables: Virtual Furniture / Porous Memory and the Cognitive Life of Things / Becoming Immedia: The Involution of Digital Convergence / Too Real / Space for Rent in the Last Suburb / N. Katherine Hayles -- Erik Davis -- Catherine Waldby -- Elizabeth Wilson -- Evelyn Fox Keller -- Samuel J. Umland and Karl Wessel -- Zoe Sofoulis -- Gregory L. Ulmer -- John Sutton -- Donald F. Theall -- McKenzie Wark -- Scott McQuire.

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Technological innovations--History
Information technology--Social aspects.
Technology and civilization

T173.8 / .P688 2003

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