Exploring Technology and Social Space

by John Macgregor Wise

• ISBN13: 9780761904212
• ISBN10: 0761904212
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781452249926
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-09-03
• Publisher: Sage Publications
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Summary

This volume offers a critical, philosophical and epistemological framework to understand better our relations to technology and social space.John MacGregor Wise: focuses on the burgeoning technological assemblage of communication and information characterized by the Internet and cyberspace; draws on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and the actor-network sociology of Latour; and brings together diverse examples from cyborg films, television, museums, cyberspace and debates over a new world information and communication order. In the last chapter, the possibilities and limitations of human agency within the new wired world are described.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi	(2)
Introduction	xiii
Part One: Episteme	3	(80)
1. Slouching Toward Tralfamadore: The Modern Episteme	3	(26)
Time	5	(3)
Cause and Effect	8	(5)
Identity	13	(3)
A View From Tralfamadore: The Living Machine on Film	16	(13)
2. Beyond the Modern Episteme: Space and Agency in the Land of the Cyborgs	29	(28)
Actor-Network	31	(8)
Cyborg Redux	39	(4)
Booking a Ticket on the First Line of Flight Out: Blade Runner 1: Identity	43	(5)
Blade Runner 2: Agency	48	(3)
Living Machines and a Shift in Social Space	51	(6)
3. Living in a Deleuzian World	57	(26)
Technology and Language	59	(10)
Social Space	69	(5)
Resistance, Flexibility, Margins of Maneuver	74	(9)
Part Two: Assemblage	83	(104)
4. Making Television, Making History: AT&T Builds the Bomb	85	(28)
Building the Bomb	85	(2)
Bomb Discourse	87	(3)
Day One's Narrative	90	(4)
Day One and History	94	(5)
Day One and Technology	99	(8)
Day One and After	107	(6)
5. Communications: From SDI to NII Through the MSI	113	(24)
The Exhibit	117	(2)
Stratification	119	(4)
Articulation	123	(14)
6. Welcome to Your Assemblage	137	(24)
NII Assemblage	138	(3)
NII XXX Information Superhighway: Policy to Social Movement	141	(7)
Life in the Telecommunity	148	(3)
The Wired World	151	(10)
7. It's a Small World After all: Rethinking the NIICO and the GII	161	(26)
The GII	161	(6)
Shifting Space	167	(1)
NIICO: Fighting Modernism With Modernism	168	(6)
Strategic (De) Linking	174	(3)
Flows	177	(10)
Conclusion: Technology Is License to Forget	187	(4)
References	191	(14)
Index	205	(8)
About the Author	213