Memory Trade
Subtitle: A Prehistory of Cyberculture
Publisher: Fine Art Publishing
Published: July 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9789057041815
Subjects: Social Aspects - General; Sociology; Conceptual; Art; Social Aspects; Anthropology - Cultural; Anthropology; Cultural studies; Impact of computing & IT on society
Description: The notion of "culture" is changing at the speed of information itself. Computer technology is creating a new kind of public, a cyberculture with all its utopian and apocalyptic possibilities. But is it that new? Popular debate generally ignores cyberculture's historical context. The official history begins n the 19th century and tracks the evolution of telecommunications, the egalitarian dream of the global village, and the emergence of the military-industrial complex. However this omits the deeper, prehistory of technolgical tranformations of culture that are everywhere felt but nowhere seen in the telematic landscape of the late-twentieth century. Cyberculture is an extension, rather than innovation, of human engagement with communication and information technologies.