Delusive spaces
Subtitle: essays on culture, media and technology
By: Eric Kluitenberg.
Series: Studies in network cultures
Publisher: NAi
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Rotterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9789056626174
Subjects: Mass media and culture; Mass media and technology
Description: "In Delusive Spaces, Eric Kluitenberg takes a critical position that retains a utopian potential for emerging media cultures. The book investigates the archaeology of media and machine, mapping the different methods and metaphors used to speak about technology. Returning to the present, Kluitenberg discusses the cultural use of new media in an age of post-governmental politics. Delusive Spaces concludes with the impossibility of representation. Going beyond the obvious delusions of the 'new' and the 'free', Kluitenberg theorizes artistic practices and European cultural policies, demonstrating a provocative engagement with the utopian dimension of technology."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.