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Cyberfutures Ziauddin Sardar

Cyberfutures By Ziauddin Sardar

Cyberfutures by Ziauddin Sardar


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A reflective, critical perspective on the evolution of cyberspace.

Cyberfutures Summary

Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Superhighway by Ziauddin Sardar

'[It] does a great service in making available a clear set of critiques of the headlong rush into a planned and administered future, while at the same time providing tools for analysis and policy which demonstrate the necessity, not to plan the future, but to take responsibility for the grounds upon which it can emerge' Futures
'An authoritative guide to thinking seriously about information technology, [It] helps to shift debate from its current journalistic level to a more considered overview of the phenomenon' Dr Jonathan Bigwell, University of Reading
Contents: Technological Whirlwind * Darker Side of West * Microcybernetic Revolution & Dialectics of Ignorance * Meta-Technology of Pure Control * Democratic Franchise & Electronic Frontier * Ecology & Cyberculture * Anthropology of Cyberculture * New Political Paradigm?

About Ziauddin Sardar

Ziauddin Sardar is a London-based scholar, award-winning writer, cultural critic and intellectual specialising in Muslim thought, futures studies and science and cultural relations. He is the author of How Do You Know?: Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations (Pluto, 2006), Aliens R Us: The Other in Science Fiction Cinema (Pluto, 2002) and Postmodernism and the Other (Pluto, 1997). Dr Jerry Ravetz is the author of the classic study, Scientific Knowledge and Social Problems, and the director of the Research Methods Consultancy. He has a particular interest in the history of ideas and the philosophy of science.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Reaping the technological whirlwind
- Ziauddin Sardar and Jerry Ravetz

1. alt.civilizations.faq: Cyberspace As the Darker Side of the West
- Ziauddin Sardar

2. The Microcybernetic Revolution and the Dialectics of Ignorance
- Jerome R. Ravetz

3. Microcybernetics as the Meta-Technology of Pure Control
- George Spencer

4. Democratic Franchise and the Electronic Frontier
- Vivian Sobchack

5. Earthing the Ether: The Alternating Currents of Ecology and Cyberculure
- Nigel Clark

6. Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture
- Arturo Escobar

7. Is There a New Political Paradigm Lurking in Cyberspace?
- Jay Kinney

Notes on Contributors
Index

Additional information

GOR007171663
9780745311210
0745311210
Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Superhighway by Ziauddin Sardar
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Pluto Press
1996-07-20
168
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