Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life

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INDEX

a
Abdication Crisis 1936 24-5
Abercrombie, N. 166
absolute mobilisation 54 , 55 , 111
abstraction 51-3
academic freedom 160
accreditation 217
acquiescence to innovation 74
Adams, E. 182
administrative control 92-4 , 113 , 121-2 , 123 , 134-5
administrative rationalisation 105
advertising 99-100 , 101-2 , 108
aerospace industry 158
agricultural Luddism 45
Albig, W. 134 , 137 , 139 , 143
alienation 51-3
allocative control 92-4
Alt, J. 112
Alumni Networks 195
Anderson, L. 13
animals: and machines 21
animism 33-4
apathy 74
Ashworth, W. 234
assessment 182-3 ;
higher education 197 , 198-9 , 210
audit society 195
authenticity tests 183
authoritative control 92-4 , 177-9
automation of decisions 157
autonomy 160 , 236-7

b
Babbage, C. 234
Ballistic Missile Defense Organisation 163
balloon flight 33 , 35
Ball-Rokeach, S. 131
Bamford, S. 33
Bangemann, M. 66
Barnaby, F. 161
Barnouw, E. 13
Baudrillard, J. 156
Bauman, Z. 213 , 226
Bell, D. 81 , 82-3 , 94 , 140
benevolent technology 68
Beniger, J.R. 4
Benjamin, W. 28 , 35-6 , 37 , 254
Bentham, J. 118-19 , 122 , 178
Berger, J. 130
Bernay, E. 139-40
Bernstein, B. 176 , 182 , 184 , 189
Bessemer, H. 35
Blair, T. 44 , 59 , 77-8 , 200-1
Blake, W. 16-17 , 33
Bloch, E. 37
Block, F. 77
Blumer, H. 136
Blunt, A. 18
Bogdanović, B. 254
Bollas, C. 249
Bookchin, M. 14
Boorstin, D. 151
bourgeois public sphere 104
Boyer, C. 252
Braverman, H. 53
British Telecom 123
Broadfoot, P. 182
Bronowski, J. 16-17

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Table of contents

  • Title Page v
  • Contents vii
  • Introduction 1
  • Part I - Techno-Visions 11
  • 1 - Cultural History of Pandaemonium 13
  • 2 - Engaging with Luddism 39
  • 3 - The Hollowing of Progress 63
  • Part II - Genealogies of Information 87
  • 4 - The Long History of the Information Revolution 89
  • 5 - The Cybernetic Imagination of Capitalism 111
  • 6 - Propaganda 131
  • Part III - The Politics of Cyberspace 147
  • 7 - Cyberwars 149
  • 8 - Education as Knowledge and Discipline 168
  • 9 - Deconstructing the Academy 192
  • Part IV - Living in Virtual Space 219
  • 10 - Prospects a of Virtual Culture 221
  • 11 - The Virtual Pacification of Space 238
  • Notes 261
  • Index 307
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