Shaping Technologies
Sarai Reader 03
ed. by Sarai Media Lab and Waag Society

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Editor(s)

Sarai Media Lab, Waag Society

Publication

Dehli ; Amsterdam : The Sarai Programme : De Waag Society for Old and New Media, 2003

Scope

379 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.

ISBN

8190142933

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In Shaping Technologies the writers undertake re-readings of past debates, and anticipations of future ones, weigh utopian visions against dystopic nightmares. They report the latest on surveillance, and excavate histories of tech novelty. The question is: what kind of 'technical culture' exists outside of the cybernetic feedback loops of global products and services of capital? What space can we claim for freedom and function, safely out of reach of the apparatus of the state and the machine of corporation?

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Keywords

surveillance , fear , aesthetics - critical aesthetics , future scenario's , new media , internet

Location

Cabinet 11 - 3: Technologie + Posthumanisme

Extra themes

Digitization - implications of

Remarks

Incl. Bibliographical References