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Computers and Civilisation - the effect of computer technology on society |
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About this book: "Cyberspace": the word captures the increasing sense that beyond - or perhaps on - the computer screen lies an enticing and forbidden new frontier awaiting exploration, promising discovery, threatening humanistic values, hatching new ways of thinking and speaking, and altering our relation to the written word The essays in this book explore the concepts of texts and the forms of textuality emerging from the new electronic technologies. The first group examines contemporary literary theory and the texts of cyberspace. The second debates how identity is affected by the power of electronic technology to create virtual doubles of the body. The last presents three "performance texts" which turn the critical investigation of cyberspace textuality into a quest for new forms of literary theoretical writing. Representative of the next generation of cybertext criticism, the essays gathered here address several needs in cybertext criticism: they engage in a critical, though not hostile, dialogue with the first generation of theorists; they search for a middle ground between a narrowly technical description of the works and general considerations about the medium.; they outline a poetics tailor-made for electronic textuality; and they relate cybertexts to the major human, aesthetic, and intellectual concerns of contemporary culture. Contents: Part 1: Cybertext Theory Part 2: Cyberspace Identity Part 3. Cybertext Criticism as Writing Experiment Appendix: World Wide Web Sites on Cyberspace Textuality |
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