Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262533065 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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She has studied both Systems Design Engineering and English Literature.. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
techno-phobia, challenging popular assumptions that the computer is either empowering and transparent or a relentless surveillance machine."--Tara McPherson, University of Southern California. This is a lucid, rigorous, and fascinating critical analysis of new media."--Lisa Nakamura, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Visual Culture Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison"*Control and Freedom* makes a major contribution to our understanding of digital media and networked society. "Control and Freedom is the most theoretically rich, deftly written, and historically grounded treatment of race in cyberspace to date. Chun off
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 fo
"enlightening" according to Julie Levin Russo. 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 user-friend. 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.. 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, 2009.