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Culture on the brink : ideologies of technology / edited by Gretchen Bender [and] Timothy Druckrey.

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TextSeries: Discussions in contemporary culture ; no. 9.Publication details: Seattle : Bay Press, 1994.Description: 361 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

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0941920283
9780941920285
1565844963
9781565844964

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Culture on the brink.LOC classification:

N 72 .T4 C84 1994

Contents:

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.

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Legacy 2017

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At head of t.p.: Dia Center for the Arts.

Summary: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Storms Research Center Main Collection	N 72 .T4 C84 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	98629885

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-356).

At head of t.p.: Dia Center for the Arts.

"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.