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Culture of the Internet and the Internet as Cult : Social Fears and Religious Fantasies by Philippe. Breton (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLitwin Books, LLC
ISBN-10193611741X
ISBN-139781936117413
eBay Product ID (ePID)24038825635
Product Key Features
Publication Year2011
SubjectCommunication Studies, Social Aspects / General
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameCulture of the Internet and the Internet As Cult : Social Fears and Religious Fantasies
TypeTextbook
AuthorPhilippe. Breton
Subject AreaComputers, Language Arts & Disciplines
FormatTrade Paperback
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2010-038287
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal303.48/33
Original LanguageFrench
SynopsisIn this book, French author Philippe Breton looks at the Internet and the culture surrounding it through the lens of its cultural background. Central in his insightful analysis of "the Internet as cult" are Teilhard de Chardin and the New Age, but he looks also at the fears, passions and pathologies of Alan Turing and Norbert Wiener, the imagined worlds of Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, J.G. Ballard and Timothy Leary, the prognostications and confessions of Bill Gates, Nicolas Negroponte and Bill Joy, and the philosophies of Saint-Simon, McLuhan and Pierre L vy. Dreams of a transparent and unmediated world, a world in which neither time nor space are relevant, a world without violence, without law, without a distinction between the public and the private, Breton contrasts with the reality of propaganda, computer viruses and surveillance, the world in which "sociality in the sense of mutuality disappears in favor of interactivity," where "experience with another and with the world in general is replaced by brief reactionary relations that hardly engage us at all." This English language translation is by David Bade., In this book, French author Philippe Breton looks at the Internet and the culture surrounding it through the lens of its cultural background. Central in his insightful analysis of "the Internet as cult" are Teilhard de Chardin and the New Age, but he looks also at the fears, passions and pathologies of Alan Turing and Norbert Wiener, the imagined worlds of Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, J.G. Ballard and Timothy Leary, the prognostications and confessions of Bill Gates, Nicolas Negroponte and Bill Joy, and the philosophies of Saint-Simon, McLuhan and Pierre Levy. Dreams of a transparent and unmediated world, a world in which neither time nor space are relevant, a world without violence, without law, without a distinction between the public and the private, Breton contrasts with the reality of propaganda, computer viruses and surveillance, the world in which "sociality in the sense of mutuality disappears in favor of interactivity," where "experience with another and with the world in general is replaced by brief reactionary relations that hardly engage us at all." This English language translation is by David Bade."
LC Classification NumberHM851.B7413 2010
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