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- Book Title
- Magic and Loss : The Internet As Art
- ISBN
- 9781501132674
- Subject Area
- Computers, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Magic and Loss : the Internet As Art
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Subject
- Media Studies, Web / Social Media, Social Aspects / General, Aesthetics, Telecommunications
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 9.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Virginia Heffernan gives a highly informative analysis of what the internet is and can be in an examination of its past, present and future.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1501132679
ISBN-13
9781501132674
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234434731
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Magic and Loss : the Internet As Art
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Media Studies, Web / Social Media, Social Aspects / General, Aesthetics, Telecommunications
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
9.1 Oz
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Trade
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Hm851
Reviews
"Heffernan is a gleeful trickster, a semiotics fan with an unabashed sweet tooth for pop culture...MAGIC BRINGS JOY [in this] enjoyable snapshot."-- The New York Times, "Magic and Gain !" -- Frank Wilczek , Winner of the 2005 Noble Prize in Physics and author of A Beautiful Question, " Magic and Loss is the book we--or at least I--have been waiting for, the book that Internet culture, and the way it's changed the expression and reception of art, language, and ideas, deserves and demands. Virginia Heffernan argues that the Internet, broadly conceived, is a 'massive and collaborative work of realist art,' and she illuminates it with the best sort of cultural criticism--humane, personal, and extremely smart, with a frame of references that includes St. Thomas Aquinas, Liz Phair, Richard Rorty, Beyonc, and the pairing of Dante and Steve Jobs, two 'labile romantics.' Whether writing about how the Kindle changed reading, how the iPod and iPhone changed listening, or how the demise of landline telephones changed communicating, Heffernan goes right to the heart of the lived experience... Virginia Heffernan quotes Harold Bloom to the effect that 'to behold is a tragic posture; to observe is an ethical one.' In Magic and Loss , she observes, in the best sense of the word."-- Ben Yagoda , author of The B-Side and How to Not Write Bad, "In melding the personal with the increasingly universal, Heffernan delivers a highly informative analysis of what the Internet is--and can be. A thoroughly engrossing examination of the Internet's past, present,and future." -Kirkus, Starred Review, "Her book (thankfully) is more like an essay than like a treatise. Heffernan is smart, her writing has flair, she can refer intelligently to Barthes, Derrida, and Benjamin--also to Aquinas, Dante, and Proust--and she knows a lot about the Internet and its history." --The New Yorker, "Virginia Heffernan spins the straw of the Internet into analysis that's solid gold: a brilliant book.."-- Mark Edmundson, professor at the University of Virginia, and author of Why Teach? and Why Football Matters, "Virginia Heffernan spins the straw of the Internet into analysis that's solid gold: a brilliant book.."- Mark Edmundson, professor at the University of Virginia, and author of Why Teach? and Why Football Matters, "Magic and Gain !" -- Frank Wilczek , Winner of the 2005 Noble Prize in Physics and author of A Beautiful Question, " Magic and Loss is the book we--or at least I--have been waiting for, the book that Internet culture, and the way it's changed the expression and reception of art, language, and ideas, deserves and demands. Virginia Heffernan argues that the Internet, broadly conceived, is a 'massive and collaborative work of realist art,' and she illuminates it with the best sort of cultural criticism--humane, personal, and extremely smart, with a frame of references that includes St. Thomas Aquinas, Liz Phair, Richard Rorty, Beyoncé, and the pairing of Dante and Steve Jobs, two 'labile romantics.' Whether writing about how the Kindle changed reading, how the iPod and iPhone changed listening, or how the demise of landline telephones changed communicating, Heffernan goes right to the heart of the lived experience... Virginia Heffernan quotes Harold Bloom to the effect that 'to behold is a tragic posture; to observe is an ethical one.' In Magic and Loss , she observes, in the best sense of the word."-- Ben Yagoda , author of The B-Side and How to Not Write Bad, " Magic and Loss is an illuminating guide to the internet...it is impossible to come away from this book without sharing some of [Heffernan's] awe for this brave new world." --The Wall Street Journal, "Readers will be enthralled by Heffernan's unique take on this popular entity. Tech-savvy readers will be drawn to this book, but the concept of technology as creative expression should also entice art lovers. Most important, readers will be encouraged to appreciate the Internet not only for its ability to connect us to one another and information but also for its beauty." --Library Journal, "Heffernan is a new species of wizard, able to perform literary magic upon supersonic technology. Her superpower is to remove the technology from technology, leaving the essential art. You might get an epiphany, like I did, of what a masterpiece this internet thing is. Heffernan has the cure for the small thinking that everyday hardware often produces. She generates marvelous insights at the speed of light, warmed up by her well-worn classical soul. It's a joy and revelation to be under her spell."-- Kevin Kelly , author of What Technology Wants and co-founder of Wired, "Her book (thankfully) is more like an essay than like a treatise. Heffernan is smart, her writing has flair, she can refer intelligently to Barthes, Derrida, and Benjamin--also to Aquinas, Dante, and Proust--and she knows a lot about the Internet and its history." --The New Yorker , "Heffernan is a new species of wizard, able to perform literary magic upon supersonic technology. Her superpower is to remove the technology from technology, leaving the essential art. You might get an epiphany, like I did, of what a masterpiece this internet thing is. Heffernan has the cure for the small thinking that everyday hardware often produces. She generates marvelous insights at the speed of light, warmed up by her well-worn classical soul. It's a joy and revelation to be under her spell."- Kevin Kelly , author of What Technology Wants and co-founder of Wired, "Marrying this study with her own fascinating personal history with the internet as a pre-teen, Magic and Loss is a revealing look at how the internet continues to reshape our lives emotionally, visually and culturally." --The Smithsonian Magazine, "Heffernan's rhetoric is so dexterous that even digital pessimists like me can groove to her descriptions of 'achingly beautiful apps,' her comparison of MP3 compression to 'Zeuxius's realist paintings from the 5th century BC.' And Heffernan is subtly less optimistic than she at first seems-she knows that magic is not the opposite of loss, but sometimes its handmaiden. She's written a blazing and finally wise book, passionate in its resistance to the lazy certitudes of a cynically triumphal scientism."- Michael Robbins , author of The Second Sex and Alien vs. Predator, " Magic and Loss is the book we-or at least I-have been waiting for, the book that Internet culture, and the way it's changed the expression and reception of art, language, and ideas, deserves and demands. Virginia Heffernan argues that the Internet, broadly conceived, is a 'massive and collaborative work of realist art,' and she illuminates it with the best sort of cultural criticism-humane, personal, and extremely smart, with a frame of references that includes St. Thomas Aquinas, Liz Phair, Richard Rorty, Beyonc, and the pairing of Dante and Steve Jobs, two 'labile romantics.' Whether writing about how the Kindle changed reading, how the iPod and iPhone changed listening, or how the demise of landline telephones changed communicating, Heffernan goes right to the heart of the lived experience... Virginia Heffernan quotes Harold Bloom to the effect that 'to behold is a tragic posture; to observe is an ethical one.' In Magic and Loss , she observes, in the best sense of the word."- Ben Yagoda , author of The B-Side and How to Not Write Bad, "Marrying this study with her own fascinating personal history with the internet as a pre-teen, Magic and Loss is a revealing look at how the internet continues to reshape our lives emotionally, visually and culturally." --The Smithsonian Magazine , "Heffernan is a gleeful trickster, a semiotics fan with an unabashed sweet tooth for pop culture...MAGIC BRINGS JOY [in this] enjoyable snapshot."-- The New York Times, "This is sumptuous writing, saturated with observations that are simultaneously personal, cultural, and strikingly original--and she's writing about software . I love it. Ultimately, the art here is her prose style." -- The New Republic, "My copy of Magic and Loss is sloppily scrawled with all-caps pencillings of words like 'YES!' and 'TRUTH!' "--Mark McConnell, Slate Magazine, "Heffernan's rhetoric is so dexterous that even digital pessimists like me can groove to her descriptions of 'achingly beautiful apps,' her comparison of MP3 compression to 'Zeuxius's realist paintings from the 5th century BC.' And Heffernan is subtly less optimistic than she at first seems--she knows that magic is not the opposite of loss, but sometimes its handmaiden. She's written a blazing and finally wise book, passionate in its resistance to the lazy certitudes of a cynically triumphal scientism."-- Michael Robbins , author of The Second Sex and Alien vs. Predator, "This is sumptuous writing, saturated with observations that are simultaneously personal, cultural, and strikingly original--and she's writing about software . I love it. Ultimately, the art here is her prose style." -- The New Republic
Copyright Date
2017
Dewey Decimal
302.231
Dewey Edition
23
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