Digital Aesthetics / Edition 1

by Sean Cubitt

Overview

The aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world are investigated in this book. Sean Cubitt casts a cool eye on the claims of cybertopians, tracing the globalization of the new medium and enquiring into its effects on subjectivity and sociality.

Drawing on historical scholarship, philosophical aesthetics and the literature of cyberculture, the author argues for a genuine democracy beyond the limitations of the free market and the global corporation. Digital arts are identified as having a vital part to play in this process. Written in a balanced and penetrating style, the book both conveniently summarizes a huge literature and sets a new agenda for research and theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761958994
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/15/1998
Series:	Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society Series
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths, University of London; Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee. His publications include Timeshift: On Video Culture, Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture, Digital Aesthetics, Simulation and Social Theory, The Cinema Effect and Eco Media. He is the series editor for Leonardo Books at MIT Press. Current research is on the history and philosophy of visual technologies, on media art history and on ecocriticism and mediation.

Table of Contents

Reading the Interface
Reading the Interface
Virtual Realism
Machine Perception and the Global Image
Spatial Effects
Pygmalion
Silence, Sound and Space
Turbulence
Network Morphology and the Corporate Cyborg