Moral tales and meditations
Subtitle: technological parables and refractions
By: Michael Joyce ; afterword by Hélène Cixous.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Technology and civilization -- Fiction; Technology and civilization -- Moral and ethical aspects; Mass media -- Fiction; Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects; Didactic fiction, American; Parables
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Novelist, cyber-theorist, and widely acclaimed hypertext ficton writer Michael Joyce weaves an evocative and provocative set of brief essays and short parable-like fictions into a compelling collection of meditations on how technology and new media affect our culture and everyday lives. Taken together, these pieces present a writer's reflections on a life of sudden changes at the edge of an uncertain future.

They continue Joyce's effort to construct what in previous collections he has called "theoretical narratives." Here, however, Joyce turns from reflections to what he terms "refractions," alluding to the turning or bending a wave undergoes when it passes from one medium into another of different density. Through these refractions, he formulates an understanding of the wave of change we face as human beings in a multimediated age."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-149).