Imaginary Futures

From Thinking Machines to the Global Village

Autor: Richard Barbrook

Limbă:

Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: PLUTO PRESS

Disponibilitate: șansă 50%

Şanse de a obține acest titlu

602.81 lei

Winner of the MEA's 2008 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology....

Informații despre carte

Autor

Richard Barbrook

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2007

Pagini

336

EAN

9780745326610

ISBN

0745326617

Enbook ID

04671539

Editura

PLUTO PRESS

Greutate

620

Dimensiuni

135 x 215 x 29

Descriere completă

Winner of the MEA's 2008 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology. 'A compelling, authoritative, and painstakingly documented narrative, Imaginary Futures traces the emergence of the computer era in the context of desperately competing ideologies, economics, and empires. This is a work of passionate and persuasive scholarship by a contemporary social theorist at the top of his game.' Douglas Rushkoff, author, Coercion, Media Virus, Get Back in the Box. 'Imaginary Futures gives insight into how the dominant utopias of today were shaped in the time of the Cold War and served the ideological needs of the elites. While the Cold War West had a much better present, it was the Soviet East which had a vision of the future. The invention of a Western utopia became an important factor in the struggle for global power.' Boris Kagarlitsky, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Comparative Political Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences -- The future is now-- Richard Barbrook argues that, at the height of the Cold War, the Americans invented a truly revolutionary tool: the Internet. Yet, for all of its libertarian potential, hi-tech science soon became a tool of geopolitical dominance. The rest of the world was expected to follow America's path into the networked future. Today, we're still told that the Net is creating the information society. Barbrook shows how we can reclaim its revolutionary purpose: how the DIY ethic of the internet can help people shape information technologies in their own interest and reinvent their own, improved visions of the future.

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Imaginary Futures

From Thinking Machines to the Global Village

Informații despre carte

Descriere completă

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și