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Title: The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (Leonardo Books) by Peter Lunenfeld ISBN: 0-262-62137-1 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 28 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best techno thinking material.
Comment: ~That does not means it is correct. – I know, I know, by using~{!0~}correct~{!1~}, it shows I'm not dialectically sophisticated enough. However, that is my point: those material force you to think, and force you to justify your logic/thinking as an everyday techie. For example, the ~{!0~}information~{!1~} view of genetics. It is totally justifiable ("justfiable", another sin like "correct"): information is used because the DNA code is perfectly comparable with computer code.~~ However, why computer code is ~{!0~}information~{!1~}? – because it is ~{!0~}form~{!1~} related. Why ~{!0~}form~{!1~}? because it is related with the application of math. In general, the prestige or bias for ~{!0~}information~{!1~} is from the mathematic-based exact science.
The premises or hidden background of ~{!0~}dialectics~{!1~} is somewhat cynical sociological-philosophical interpretation of concepts. I believe it is an antidote for techies – even it simply means you have~~ to put some thinking on it.
I love it, because it force me to prove it is incorrect!~
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic Anthology
Comment: The title of this collection gives a clue of what the reader is headed for - the term "dialectic" is most often connected with philosophical ponderings or Marxist manifestos - this is not just another puff piece exhorting the brave new world and global village of interconnectiveness, this is a series of eleven well written essays delving into New Media Theory.
Grouped into four sections: "The Real and the Ideal", "The Body and the Machine", "The Medium and the Message", and "The World and the Screen", this collection explores the new way of being and thinking that digital technology elicits. An important work that refuses to slip into pedanticism; thought provoking and entertaining. A must read for anyone who wants to be a subject rather than an object in the Information Age.
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Title: The Language of New Media (Leonardo Books) by Lev Manovich ISBN: 0262632551 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 07 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Remediation: Understanding New Media by Jay David Bolter, Richard Grusin ISBN: 0262522799 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 28 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The New Media Reader by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort ISBN: 0262232278 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 14 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality, Expanded Edition by Randall Packer, Ken Jordan, William Gibson ISBN: 0393323757 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 16 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles, Katherine Hayles ISBN: 0226321460 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.20 |
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