TY - BOOK AU - Bender,Gretchen AU - Druckrey,Timothy ED - Dia Center for the Arts (New York, N.Y.) TI - Culture on the brink: ideologies of technology T2 - Discussions in contemporary culture / Dia Center for the Arts, SN - 0941920283 AV - N 72 .T4 C84 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - Seattle PB - Bay Press KW - Art and technology KW - Art and society KW - fast KW - Technologie KW - gtt KW - Filosofische aspecten KW - Futurologie KW - Culturele aspecten KW - Kunst KW - gnd KW - Mensch KW - Neue Medien KW - Techniksoziologie KW - Technischer Fortschritt KW - Aufsatzsammlung KW - Art et technologie KW - sears KW - Visuelles Gestaltungsmittel KW - Geschichte KW - Periodicals KW - U.S.A KW - 1987-9529 KW - aat N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-356); Technology and the future of work / Stanley Aronowitz -- Media, technology, and the market : the interacting dynamic / Herbert I. Schiller -- From virtual cyborgs to biological time bombs : technocriticism and the material body / Kathleen Woodward -- Homo generator : media and postmodern technology / Wolfgang Schirmacher -- The merging of bodies and artifacts in the social contract / Elaine Scarry -- The human genome project : a challenge in biological technology / Joan H. Marks -- The dream of the human genome / R.C. Lewontin -- AIDS, identity, and the politics of gender / Paula A. Treichler --Making sense out of nonsense : rescuing reality from virtual reality / Gary Chapman -- What do cyborgs eat? Oral logic in an information society / Margaret Morse -- Three paradoxes of the information age / Langdon Winner; Artists, engineers, and collaboration / Billy Kl�uver -- Stories from the nerve Bible / Laurie Anderson -- Virtual reality as the completion of the Enlightenment project / Simon Penny -- Give me a (break) beat! Sampling and repetition in rap production / Tricia Rose -- Lenin's war, Baudrillard's games / James Der Derian -- Video/television/Rodney King : twelve steps beyond the pleasure principle / Avital Ronnell -- The haunted screen / Kevin Robins -- The Gulf massacre as paranoid rationality / Les Levidow -- The new smartness / Andrew Ross; At head of t.p.: Dia Center for the Arts N2 - "This volume documents the present crisis in American urban housing policies and portrays how artists ... within the context of neighborhood organizations, have fought against government neglect, shortsighted housing policies and unfettered real estate speculation. Through essays, photographs, symposiums, architectural plans and the reproduction of works from the series of exhibitions organized by [Martha] Rosler, the book serves a number of functions: it's a practical manual for community organizing; a history of housing and homelessness in New York City and around the country; and an outline of what a human housing policy might encompass for the American city"--Back cover ER -