Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (665 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262533065 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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In this fine and enjoyable book, Chun traces the intermedial connections between online and offline representations of race and gender. Chun offers up a refreshing and much-needed challenge to the core assumptions of Lev Manovich's *The Language of New Media*, moving beyond that book's insistent formalism toward a more contextualized understanding of the difference that a medium makes. This is a lucid, rigorous, and fascinating critical analysis of new media."--Lisa Nakamura, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Visual Culture Studies, Univ
She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature.. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
enlightening This theoretically-savvy but nonetheless highly readable book makes a provocative and vital intervention in the field of internet studies. In an engaging romp through topics as diverse as cyberporn, cyberpunk, wecams, globalization, race, TV commercials, TCP/IP, and Schreber's turn-of-the-century delusions, the author argues compellingly that our freedom depends on moving beyond rhetorics of the internet as democratic and/or dangerous. It's a sharp and often stunning analysis that lays bare the ideological stakes of such notions as. Fine book Wendy Hui Kyong Chun presents a compelling look at cyber-culture and the discipline of the control-freedom dynamic. She looks primarily at pornography and cyberpunk literature for her analysis, integrating the views of Foucault, Deleuze, Debord, and others.Excepts from this text appear in The Visual Culture Reader, edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff.. ROROTOKO said Freedom makes control possible, necessary, and never enough. "Control and Freedom" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Chun's book interview ran here as cover feature on March 17, "Freedom makes control possible, necessary, and never enough" according to ROROTOKO. "Control and Freedom" is on the ROROTOKO list of cutting-edge intellectual nonfiction. Professor Chun's book interview ran here as cover feature on March 17, 2009.. 009.
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. 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 mach