Reading Digital Culture [Paperback]

Computer technology has transformed many fundamental parts of life: how we work and play, how we communicate and consume, how we create knowledge and learn, even how we understand politics and participate in public life. Reading Digital Culture is a comprehensive collection of the most influential essays on digital media written in recent years.Introduction.

Part I: The Machine in the Garden.

1. As We May Think. (Vannevar Bush).

2. Ada. (Sadie Plant).

3. From Virtual Reality to the Virtualization of Reality. (Slavotj Zizek).

4. Speed and Information: cyberspace Alarm! (Paul Virilio).

5. A Manifesto for Cyborgs. (Donna Haraway).

6. Machinic Heterogenesis. (Felix Guattari).

Part II: Knowledge and Communication in a Digital Age.

7. Johnny Mnemonic. (William Gibson).

8. The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace. (Michael Heim).

9. Virtually Female: Body and Code. (Margaret Morse).

10. Hypertext and Critical Theory. (George Landdow).

11. Computers as Theatre. (Brenda Laurel).

12. The Information War. (Hakim Bey).

Part III: Living in the Immaterial World.

13. Dilemmas of Transformation in the Age of the Smart Machine. (Shoshana Zuboff).

14. Technology and the Future of Work. (Stanley Aronowitz).

15. The Theory of the Virtual Class. (Arthur Kroker and Michael A. Weinsteing).

16. The Informational Economy. (Manuel Castells).

17. The Global Information Highway: Project for an Ungovernable World. (Herbert Schiller).

18. The Coming Age of the Flesh Machine. Critical Art Ensemble.

Part IV: Performing Il“.