Resisting the Virtual Life : The Culture and Politics of Information

by Brook, James; Boal, Iain A.

• ISBN13: 9780872862999
• ISBN10: 0872862992
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-05-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
THE NEW INFORMATION ENCLOSURES
A Flow of Monsters: Luddism and Virtual Technologies	3	(14)
Iain A. Boal
The Global Information Highway: Project for an Ungovernable World	17	(18)
Herbert I. Schiller
It's Discrimination, Stupid!	35	(14)
Oscar H. Gandy Jr.
Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier	49	(10)
Laura Miller
From Internet to Information Superhighway	59	(12)
Howard Besser
Media Activism and Radiacal Democracy	71	(14)
Jesse Drew
Making Technology Democratic	85	(20)
Richard E. Sclove
REWIRING THE BODY
Soldier, Cyborg, Citizen	105	(10)
Kevin Robins
Les Levidow
Body, Brain, and Communication	115	(16)
George Lakoff
Iain A. Boal
Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life	131	(14)
Ellen Ullman
Sade and Cyberspace	145	(18)
John Simmons
DEGRADING WORK
Info Fetishism	163	(10)
Doug Henwood
Digital Palsy: RSI and Restructuring Capital	173	(8)
R. Dennis Hayes
Computers, Thinking, and Schools in ``the New World Economic Order''	181	(14)
Monty Neill
The Aesthetic of the Computer	195	(12)
Daniel Harris
THE REPAINTING OF MODERN LIFE
Banalities of Information	207	(14)
Marina McDougall
The Garden of Merging Paths	221	(14)
Rebecca Solnit
The Shape of Truth to Come: New Media and Knowledge	235	(10)
Chris Carlsson
Drowning by MicroGallery	245	(8)
Chris Riding
In the Tracks of Jurassic Park	253	(10)
Phil Tippett
Iain A. Boal
Reading and Riding with Borges	263	(12)
James Brook
Contributors	275