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cyberculture and its (dis)contents

cyberculture and its (dis)contents. comp 380: computers & society. w hat is culture?. Traditions and customs; symbols; transmission Geography Products Values versus behavior Subcultures More?. what/where is cyberspace?.

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cyberculture and its (dis)contents

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  1. cyberculture and its (dis)contents comp 380: computers & society

  2. what is culture? Traditions and customs; symbols; transmission Geography Products Values versus behavior Subcultures More?

  3. what/where is cyberspace? Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by millions of legitimate operators...A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. --William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984 in and between our computers but also in and of the imagination

  4. the stories we tell about the world/online material stories: what is it? what's its history? symbolic stories: what does it mean? what does it say about us? experiential stories: what happens to us there?

  5. Michael Benedikt, 1991: Naming and Shaping the Space 1. Cyberspace: the tablet become a page become a screen become a world, a virtual world. Everywhere and nowhere, a place where nothing is forgotten and yet everything changes. (MB) 2. The etherialization of the world we live in...the concretization of the world we dream and think in. (MB) Cyberspace should be magic. (MB) Symbolic doing World 3 (Karl Popper)

  6. Benedikt’s principles of cyberspace design Exclusion Maximal exclusion Indifference Scale Transit Personal visibility Commonality

  7. Sherry Turkle and the Screen Identity Aliveness Community Liminality Virtual social mobility

  8. Maria Bakardjieva Theory should be shaped by our stories User versus consumer Types of human-technology relationship via Don Ihde: embodiment, hermeneutic, alterity (background) Everyday life and the lifeworld, where the self is made The home

  9. The Singularity and the posthuman Material changes to the body: genetic engineering, prosthetics, implants The changing boundaries of the body Alternative ways of thinking about the body: a critique of the Enlightenment notions of binary divisions and the integrated subject Moving beyond Enlightenment-era humanism to a new sense of identity and possibility

  10. Cyberfeminism “Perhaps, ironically, we can learn from our fusions with animals and machines how not to be Man, the embodiment of Western logos.” –Donna Haraway Sadie Plant: The Internet is essentially feminine. Why? Sarah Kember critiques Plant. How? What do you think? Tim Dant’s notion of “assemblage”

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