The Alt. Cyberpunk. Chatsubo Anthology

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595213332
Total Pages : 368 pages
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Book Synopsis The Alt. Cyberpunk. Chatsubo Anthology by : Che Paula Dunlop

Download or read book The Alt. Cyberpunk. Chatsubo Anthology written by Che Paula Dunlop and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-01-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo… A low rent, high tech literary Usenet newsgroup hiding in a dark bar behind a red door called Charlie in a back alley of on-line culture. The Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo Anthology is a collection of writings from the hard edge, from the dingy city streets to distant planets or right down into the inner workings of the human mind. The stories within are the end result of a global collective. We come from different backgrounds, different cultures and different countries. We have in common a desire to share our works with each other, and other connoisseurs of the written word who like to sit and read the tales we have to tell.

Alt. Cyberpunk. Chatsubo Anthology 2

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595354823
Total Pages : 218 pages
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Book Synopsis Alt. Cyberpunk. Chatsubo Anthology 2 by : Peter Timusk

Download or read book Alt. Cyberpunk. Chatsubo Anthology 2 written by Peter Timusk and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary works written by members of the Usenet newsgroup alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo.

Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo Anthology 2

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595799744
Total Pages : 210 pages
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Book Synopsis Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo Anthology 2 by : Peter Timusk

Download or read book Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo Anthology 2 written by Peter Timusk and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-05-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo Anthology 2 still a low rent hi tech literary usenet group hiding behind Charlie in the internet's back alleys. This is the second installment of a global collective bent on making their works read by as many people as will take the time to stop for a moment. This anthology you now hold in your hands in a collection of stories from writers all over the world connected by nothing more than usenet, email and the driving desire to make our works known to more than our small group. There are twenty four unique stories within, written by eleven authors from around the globe. We hope you enjoy them. Maybe you will even be tempted to order a drink at the bar just don't forget your machine gun etiquette.

Alt. Culture

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Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Book Synopsis Alt. Culture by : Nathaniel Wice

Download or read book Alt. Culture written by Nathaniel Wice and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1995 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An a-z of 90s youth culture of America.

Children's Books in Print, 2007

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ISBN 13 : 9780835248518
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Control and Freedom

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262533065
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Book Synopsis Control and Freedom by : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Download or read book Control and Freedom written by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy. How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones. Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace. The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks—light coursing through glass tubes—as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.

Mirrorshades

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Total Pages : 264 pages
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Book Synopsis Mirrorshades by : Bruce Sterling

Download or read book Mirrorshades written by Bruce Sterling and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories labeled "Mirroshade," "Neuromanatic," "Cyberpunk," etc. by such authors as Greg Bear, Pat Cadigan, William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley and others.

Mona Lisa Overdrive

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Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0307831191
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Mona Lisa Overdrive by : William Gibson

Download or read book Mona Lisa Overdrive written by William Gibson and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world—lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting—where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.

Book of the Subgenius

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439188653
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Book of the Subgenius by : Subgenius Foundation

Download or read book Book of the Subgenius written by Subgenius Foundation and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Either a hilarious parody of a religious text or an informative collection of totally real stories from a definitely real church that could be the foundation-stone of the promised kingdom of peace and harmony—the decision is yours to make. What is the Church of SubGenius? Who is J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, and what kind of truths does he know? What is "Slack" and why do you need it? Will aliens truly descend upon our planet, and can you survive its destruction by becoming a member? Does The Book of SubGenius answer any of these questions? There are no straightfoward answers—you just have to read it yourself.

Rewired

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Publisher : Tachyon Publications
ISBN 13 : 1892391627
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Book Synopsis Rewired by : James Patrick Kelly

Download or read book Rewired written by James Patrick Kelly and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyberpunk is dead. The revolution has been co-opted by half-assed heroes, overclocked CGI, and tricked-out shades. Once radical, cyberpunk is now nothing more than a brand. Time to stop flipping the channel. These sixteen extreme stories reveal a government ninja routed by a bicycle repairman, the inventor of digitized paper hijacked by his college crush, a dead boy trapped in a warped storybook paradise, and the queen of England attacked with the deadliest of forbidden technology: a working modem. You’ll meet Manfred Macx, renegade meme-broker, Red Sonja, virtual reality sex-goddess, and Felix, humble sys-admin and post-apocalyptic hero. Editors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel (Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology) have united cyberpunk visionaries William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and Pat Cadigan with the new post-cyberpunk vanguard, including Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, and Jonathan Lethem. Including a canon-establishing introduction and excerpts from a hotly contested online debate, Rewired is the first anthology to define and capture the crackling excitement of the post-cyberpunks. From the grittiness of Mirrorshades to the Singularity and beyond, it’s time to revive the revolution.

New Media, Old Media

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415942249
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis New Media, Old Media by : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Download or read book New Media, Old Media written by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of new media technologies, leading media and cultural theorists examine new media against the background of traditional media such as film, photography, and print in order to evaluate the multiple claims made about the benefits and freedom of digital media.

My Own Private Germany

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821894
Total Pages : 215 pages
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Book Synopsis My Own Private Germany by : Eric L. Santner

Download or read book My Own Private Germany written by Eric L. Santner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend the rest of the nineteenth century in mental institutions. Once released, he published his Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903), a harrowing account of real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as God's private concubine. Freud's famous case study of Schreber elevated the Memoirs into the most important psychiatric textbook of paranoia. In light of Eric Santner's analysis, Schreber's text becomes legible as a sort of "nerve bible" of fin-de-siècle preoccupations and obsessions, an archive of the very phantasms that would, after the traumas of war, revolution, and the end of empire, coalesce into the core elements of National Socialist ideology. The crucial theoretical notion that allows Santner to pass from the "private" domain of psychotic disturbances to the "public" domain of the ideological and political genesis of Nazism is the "crisis of investiture." Schreber's breakdown was precipitated by a malfunction in the rites and procedures through which an individual is endowed with a new social status: his condition became acute just as he was named to a position of ultimate symbolic authority. The Memoirs suggest that we cross the threshold of modernity into a pervasive atmosphere of crisis and uncertainty when acts of symbolic investiture no longer usefully transform the subject's self understanding. At such a juncture, the performative force of these rites of institution may assume the shape of a demonic persecutor, some "other" who threatens our borders and our treasures. Challenging other political readings of Schreber, Santner denies that Schreber's delusional system--his own private Germany--actually prefigured the totalitarian solution to this defining structural crisis of modernity. Instead, Santner shows how this tragic figure succeeded in avoiding the totalitarian temptation by way of his own series of perverse identifications, above all with women and Jews.

When Gravity Fails

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575124873
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Book Synopsis When Gravity Fails by : George Effinger

Download or read book When Gravity Fails written by George Effinger and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gravity Fails, the first Marid novel, is set in a high-tech near-future featuring a divided USA and USSR, a world with mind-or mood-altering drugs for any purpose; brains enhanced by electronic hardware, with plug-in memory additions and modules offering the wearer new personalities (James Bond, celebrities); bodies shaped to perfection by surgery. Marid Audran, an unmodified and fairly honest street-survivor, lives in a decadent Arab ghetto, the Budayeen, and, against his best instincts, becomes involved in a series of inexplicable murders. Some seem like routine assassinations, carried out with an old-fashioned handgun by a man wearing a plug-in James Bond persona; others, involving whores, feature prolonged torture and horrible mutilations. The problem comes to the attention of Budayeen godfather Friedlander Bey, who makes Audran an offer he can't refuse. Audran submits to electronic brain enhancement in order to track down and deal with the killer or killers.

Asian America.Net

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415965606
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (656 download)

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Book Synopsis Asian America.Net by : Rachel C. Lee

Download or read book Asian America.Net written by Rachel C. Lee and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Language of New Media

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262632551
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)

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Book Synopsis The Language of New Media by : Lev Manovich

Download or read book The Language of New Media written by Lev Manovich and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema. In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database. Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory and history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book. Among other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories of cinema and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new media, and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media.

True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312862077
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Book Synopsis True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier by : Vernor Vinge

Download or read book True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier written by Vernor Vinge and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles and essays about the new frontier of the Internet, especially a direct interface between brain and computer that enables game players of the future to actually experience the world of their fantasies.

Discourse Networks, 1800/1900

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804720991
Total Pages : 500 pages
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Book Synopsis Discourse Networks, 1800/1900 by : Friedrich A. Kittler

Download or read book Discourse Networks, 1800/1900 written by Friedrich A. Kittler and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a highly original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communication systems, and what is said and thought using these systems - notably literature. The author focuses on the differences between 'discourse networks' in 1800 and in 1900, in the process developing a new analysis of the shift from romanticism to modernism. The work might be classified as a German equivalent to the New Historicism that is currently of great interest among American literary scholars, both in the intellectual influences to which Kittler responds and in his concern to ground literature in the most concrete details of historical reality. The artful structure of the book begins with Goethe's Faust and ends with Vale;ry's Faust. In the 1800 section, the author discusses how language was learned, the emergence of the modern university, the associated beginning of the interpretation of contemporary literature, and the canonization of literature. Among the writers and works Kittler analyzes in addition to Goethe's Faust are Schlegel, Hegel, E. T. A. Hoffman's 'The Golden Pot', and Goethe's Tasso. The 1900 section argues that the new discourse network in which literature is situated in the modern period is characterized by new technological media - film, the photograph, and the typewritten page - and the crisis that these caused for literary production. Along the way, the author discusses the work of Nietzsche, Gertrude Stein, Mallarme;, Bram Stroker, the Surrealists, Rilke, Kafka, and Freud, among others.