Control and freedom : (Record no. 73129)
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| fixed length control field | 03825nam a2200517 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 6267475 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220712204716.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 151228s2008 maua ob 001 eng d |
| 015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER | |
| -- | GBA570979 (print) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262288583 |
| -- | electronic |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | alk. paper |
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| 082 00 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 303.48/33 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author | Chun, Wendy Hui-Kyong, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Control and freedom : |
| Sub Title | power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics / |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 PDF (x, 352 pages) : |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones.Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace.The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks -- light coursing through glass tubes -- as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment. |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6267475 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | eBooks |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| -- | MIT Press, |
| -- | c2006. |
| 264 #2 - | |
| -- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| -- | IEEE Xplore, |
| -- | [2008] |
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| -- | text |
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| -- | electronic |
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| -- | online resource |
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| -- | Description based on PDF viewed 12/28/2015. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Optical communications. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Fiber optics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Technology and civilization. |
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