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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Control and Freedom (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Control and Freedom : Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
- Publication Name
- Control and Freedom
- Title
- Control and Freedom
- Subtitle
- Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0262533065
- EAN
- 9780262533065
- ISBN
- 9780262533065
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering
- Topic
- Fiber Optics, Mobile & Wireless Communications, Social Aspects, Telecommunications, History
- Release Year
- 2008
- Release Date
- 26/09/2008
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 7.1in
- Item Weight
- 20 oz
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy. How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom , Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones. Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell , she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace. The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks--light coursing through glass tubes--as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262533065
ISBN-13
9780262533065
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66031830
Product Key Features
Book Title
Control and Freedom : Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Fiber Optics, Mobile & Wireless Communications, Social Aspects, Telecommunications, History
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Technology & Engineering
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
7.1in
Item Weight
20 oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tk5103.59.C58 2008
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"Wendy Chun's important new book explores one of the salient questions raised by networked computing: the paradox of furthering the directly opposed aims of surveillance and democracy, or, as her title puts it, control and freedom. Chun's interrogation of this paradox proceeds through the realms of erotica and race, themselves vexed issues. Anyone interested in new media would do well to read this book." -Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine
Copyright Date
2008
Dewey Decimal
303.48/33
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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