Digital aesthetics

Print version:

Cover; Contents; Preface: The Universal Touring Machine; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1

Reading the Interface; Cybercafé; Hypertext and the Colonial Dialectic; A Good Read; The Library; Browsing and Netsurfing: Playful Reading; After Privacy: The Politics of Intimacy; Writing Materials; Chapter 2

Virtual Realism: Machine Perception and the Global Image; Travelling Light; Critique of Cyborg Vision; The Anarchy and Society of Perceptions; Visual Rhetoric: The Socialisation of Perception; Remote Sensing: Global Images; Deconstructing the Map; The Ethics of Utopia; Chapter 3

Spatial Effects The Trouble with HubbleZeno's Paradox: Interminable Identities; From Orient to Outer Space: Cosmic Commodities; Perspective as Special Effect; From Outer Space to Cyberspace; Hacker Transvestism and the Tourist Mouse; Chapter 4

Pygmalion: Silence, Sound and Space; Silence; Pure Hearing; Recording: The Mobilisation of Sound; Transmission: Silent Listening, Silent Reading; The Incoherence of the Soundtrack; Dispersed Spaces: Art Geography; Chapter 5

Turbulence: Network Morphology and the Corporate Cyborg; Network Subjectivity and the Secret Honour of the Posts; A Brief History of Flow The Human BiochipJunk DNA: Morphologies of Multimedia; Anonymous History: Globalisation and Diaspora; References; Index