By Peter Lunenfeld
Pcs associated with networks have created the 1st largely used structures that permit contributors to create, distribute, and obtain audiovisual content material with an identical field. They problem theorists of electronic tradition to enhance interaction-based versions to interchange the extra primitive types that let in basic terms passive use.
The electronic Dialectic is an interdisciplinary jam consultation approximately our visible and highbrow cultures because the computing device recodes applied sciences, media, and paintings varieties. in contrast to merely educational texts on new media, the publication contains contributions via students, artists, and marketers, who mix theoretical investigations with hands-on research of the chances (and boundaries) of latest expertise. the foremost proposal is the electronic dialectic: a style to floor the insights of conception within the constraints of perform. The essays movement past journalistic reportage and hype into severe yet available dialogue of recent applied sciences, new media, and new cultural forms.
Contributors: Florian Brody, Carol Gigliotti, N. Katherine Hayles, Michael Heim, Erkki Huhtamo, George P. Landow, Brenda Laurel, Peter Lunenfeld, Lev Manovich, William J. Mitchell, Bob Stein
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There is, of course, a certain jaded idealism that also enjoys poking common sense in the eye with hot purple hair, revolutionary verbiage, and cyberpunk affectations. A cybervocabulary promotes confusion as a fashion statement. Wave the banner of confusion, however, and you provoke a return to basics. Naı¨vete´ then seems a blessing. Yet the dialectical story does not end so simply, because the futurist vision is not without cogency. What the futurist sees is precisely what frightens others. Nerds in the Noosphere The futurist sees the planet Earth converging.
My own thinking involves generating operating paradigms— or threads, as I prefer—with which to make meaning. The three threads I weave here are story, space, and time. These threads are obviously broad enough to cover just about anything, but they also tie in specifically to the notion of unfinish. Unfinished Spaces Perhaps no other aspect of the new technologies has opened such a wideranging set of investigations as the advent of virtual environments and on-line matrices, with their recalibrations of physicality and seemingly boundless realms.
Their big idea absorbs individuals. The “digerati” celebrated by Wired magazine welcome the digital revolution and offer a central warning: you had better join soon, or be crushed by the wheels of history. Many of the celebrated digerati come from institutions of technology that are dedicated to advancing the cybernetic control systems of society. Such institutions came The Cyberspace Dialectic 33 to prominence not by educating through the liberal arts but by subordinating education to the advancement of government-sponsored technical research.