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050		4	_aTK5103.59 _b.C58 2006eb
082	0	0	_a303.48/33 _222
100	1		_aChun, Wendy Hui-Kyong, _d1969- _922994
245	1	0	_aControl and freedom : _bpower and paranoia in the age of fiber optics / _cWendy Hui Kyong Chun.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bMIT Press, _cc2006.
264		2	_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2008]
300			_a1 PDF (x, 352 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aelectronic _2isbdmedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and index.
506	1		_aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520			_aHow 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.
530			_aAlso available in print.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web
588			_aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/28/2015.
650		0	_aOptical communications. _97560
650		0	_aFiber optics. _99998
650		0	_aTechnology and civilization. _914414
655		0	_aElectronic books. _93294
710	2		_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor. _922995
710	2		_aMIT Press, _epublisher. _922996
776	0	8	_iPrint version _z9780262033329
856	4	2	_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6267475
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