Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, Naji Philip Makarem, and Taner Osman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780804789400
- eISBN:
- 9780804796026
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804789400.003.0009
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Innovation
The sources of economic divergence lie in their divergent levels and types of economic specialization. Specialization is caused by many forces, including lucky breakthroughs in technology, particular ...
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The sources of economic divergence lie in their divergent levels and types of economic specialization. Specialization is caused by many forces, including lucky breakthroughs in technology, particular powerful individuals, decisions of key firms at critical turning points, and lock-in effects from initial advantages. Most of these forces cannot be predicted or created. But they must find fertile ground, and this ground is prepared by the ability of the regional economy’s firms, leaders, and workers to create and absorb the organizational change that is key to new, high-wage industries. Los Angeles and San Francisco are a striking contrast in these abilities, with Los Angeles’s firms and leaders persistently returning to Old Economy organizational forms and San Francisco’s firms and leaders consistently inventing the organizational forms of the New Economy that become models for the American and world economies as a whole.Less
The sources of economic divergence lie in their divergent levels and types of economic specialization. Specialization is caused by many forces, including lucky breakthroughs in technology, particular powerful individuals, decisions of key firms at critical turning points, and lock-in effects from initial advantages. Most of these forces cannot be predicted or created. But they must find fertile ground, and this ground is prepared by the ability of the regional economy’s firms, leaders, and workers to create and absorb the organizational change that is key to new, high-wage industries. Los Angeles and San Francisco are a striking contrast in these abilities, with Los Angeles’s firms and leaders persistently returning to Old Economy organizational forms and San Francisco’s firms and leaders consistently inventing the organizational forms of the New Economy that become models for the American and world economies as a whole.
Robin Fiddian (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853235668
- eISBN:
- 9781846313851
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846313851
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, ...
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This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives, collective novels and e-mags, digital art and short Net-films. It provides a sustained academic focus on this area of cultural production, and investigates the ways in which cyberliterature and cyberculture in the broadest sense are providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices and even political agency, for Latin Americans. The volume is divided into two main sections. The first comprises eight chapters on the broad area of cyberculture and identity formation/preservation, including the development of different types of cybercommunity in Latin America. While many of the chapters applaud the creative potential of these new virtual communities, identities and cultural products to create networks across boundaries and offer new contestatory strategies, they also consider whether such phenomena may risk reinforcing existing social inequalities or perpetuate conservatism. The second section comprises six chapters and an afterword which deal with the nature of cyberliterature in all its many forms, from the (cyber)cultural legacies of writers such as Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, to traditional print literature from the region that reflects on the subject of new technology, to weblogs and hypertext and hypermedia fiction proper.Less
This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives, collective novels and e-mags, digital art and short Net-films. It provides a sustained academic focus on this area of cultural production, and investigates the ways in which cyberliterature and cyberculture in the broadest sense are providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices and even political agency, for Latin Americans. The volume is divided into two main sections. The first comprises eight chapters on the broad area of cyberculture and identity formation/preservation, including the development of different types of cybercommunity in Latin America. While many of the chapters applaud the creative potential of these new virtual communities, identities and cultural products to create networks across boundaries and offer new contestatory strategies, they also consider whether such phenomena may risk reinforcing existing social inequalities or perpetuate conservatism. The second section comprises six chapters and an afterword which deal with the nature of cyberliterature in all its many forms, from the (cyber)cultural legacies of writers such as Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, to traditional print literature from the region that reflects on the subject of new technology, to weblogs and hypertext and hypermedia fiction proper.
William Sims Bainbridge
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195331493
- eISBN:
- 9780199852321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331493.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter charts Scientology's cultural origins and affinities based on extensive data from participant observation, historical documents, questionnaire survey research, and other sources of ...
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This chapter charts Scientology's cultural origins and affinities based on extensive data from participant observation, historical documents, questionnaire survey research, and other sources of quantitative information. It outlines part of the complex sociocultural history of Scientology in terms of four formative phenomena: (1) science fiction, (2) science adventurism, (3) ludic systems of honor, and (4) the cyberculture. Scientology is not an isolated phenomenon, but can be best understood in terms of these cultural origins and affinities.Less
This chapter charts Scientology's cultural origins and affinities based on extensive data from participant observation, historical documents, questionnaire survey research, and other sources of quantitative information. It outlines part of the complex sociocultural history of Scientology in terms of four formative phenomena: (1) science fiction, (2) science adventurism, (3) ludic systems of honor, and (4) the cyberculture. Scientology is not an isolated phenomenon, but can be best understood in terms of these cultural origins and affinities.
Valerie Anishchenkova
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748643400
- eISBN:
- 9781474406321
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748643400.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This study of Arab autobiographical discourse investigates various modes of cultural identity which have emerged in Arab societies in the last 40 years. During this period, autobiographical texts ...
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This study of Arab autobiographical discourse investigates various modes of cultural identity which have emerged in Arab societies in the last 40 years. During this period, autobiographical texts moved away from exemplary life narratives and toward more unorthodox techniques, such as erotic memoir writing, postmodernist self-fragmentation, cinematographic self-projection, and autobiographical blogosphere. The book argues that the Arabic autobiographical genre has evolved into a mobile, unrestricted category arming authors with narrative tools to articulate their selfhood. Reading works from such Arab nations as Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Syria, and Lebanon, the author connects the century's rapid political and ideological developments to increasing autobiographical experimentation in Arabic works. The scope of the study also forces a consideration of film and cyber forms of self-representation as new autobiographical sub-genres. The monograph offers a novel theoretical framework to these diverse modes of autobiographical cultural production and situates Arabic autobiographical discourse as an integral part of global identity-making cultural production.Less
This study of Arab autobiographical discourse investigates various modes of cultural identity which have emerged in Arab societies in the last 40 years. During this period, autobiographical texts moved away from exemplary life narratives and toward more unorthodox techniques, such as erotic memoir writing, postmodernist self-fragmentation, cinematographic self-projection, and autobiographical blogosphere. The book argues that the Arabic autobiographical genre has evolved into a mobile, unrestricted category arming authors with narrative tools to articulate their selfhood. Reading works from such Arab nations as Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Syria, and Lebanon, the author connects the century's rapid political and ideological developments to increasing autobiographical experimentation in Arabic works. The scope of the study also forces a consideration of film and cyber forms of self-representation as new autobiographical sub-genres. The monograph offers a novel theoretical framework to these diverse modes of autobiographical cultural production and situates Arabic autobiographical discourse as an integral part of global identity-making cultural production.
Simon J. Bronner
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813134062
- eISBN:
- 9780813135885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813134062.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter argues that the Internet has not displaced tradition but instead given rise to digital forms of folklore. A user-oriented folk Web may be said to active, especially among youth, that is ...
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This chapter argues that the Internet has not displaced tradition but instead given rise to digital forms of folklore. A user-oriented folk Web may be said to active, especially among youth, that is often framed to subvert or counter a corporate, official Internet. To analyze this folk Web, the chapter suggests a revision of the “analog” or relational definition of folklore in favour of a “digital” or analytical concept focusing on the variable repetition of practices. A comparison is given of folkloric transmission in analog and digital conduits with the lore of Budd Dwyer who committed suicide in 1987. In this example and folk speech evident in cyberculture, the implication is that the practice of the folk Web is comparable to latrinalia, which suggests a projection of naturalistic feces play in response to the anxiety of being controlled by a corporate, official technology.Less
This chapter argues that the Internet has not displaced tradition but instead given rise to digital forms of folklore. A user-oriented folk Web may be said to active, especially among youth, that is often framed to subvert or counter a corporate, official Internet. To analyze this folk Web, the chapter suggests a revision of the “analog” or relational definition of folklore in favour of a “digital” or analytical concept focusing on the variable repetition of practices. A comparison is given of folkloric transmission in analog and digital conduits with the lore of Budd Dwyer who committed suicide in 1987. In this example and folk speech evident in cyberculture, the implication is that the practice of the folk Web is comparable to latrinalia, which suggests a projection of naturalistic feces play in response to the anxiety of being controlled by a corporate, official technology.
John Marks
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623419
- eISBN:
- 9780748652389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623419.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter aims to bring out some important distinctions between the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and what has come to be known as cybertheory or cyberculture. It suggests that it is ...
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This chapter aims to bring out some important distinctions between the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and what has come to be known as cybertheory or cyberculture. It suggests that it is in their focus on material complexity in the context of their concept of the virtual that Deleuze and Guattari dramatically part ways with cybertheory. The chapter explains that the critical impetus of their theory of the virtual lies in what is called the intelligence of the virtual in thought, and contends that what cybertheory does in its bastardisation of the concept is, in fact, to depoliticise it.Less
This chapter aims to bring out some important distinctions between the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and what has come to be known as cybertheory or cyberculture. It suggests that it is in their focus on material complexity in the context of their concept of the virtual that Deleuze and Guattari dramatically part ways with cybertheory. The chapter explains that the critical impetus of their theory of the virtual lies in what is called the intelligence of the virtual in thought, and contends that what cybertheory does in its bastardisation of the concept is, in fact, to depoliticise it.
Dorothy Wai Sim Lau
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474430333
- eISBN:
- 9781474460040
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474430333.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images – once the preserve of studios and agents – have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web ...
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As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images – once the preserve of studios and agents – have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web technology has made searching, poaching, editing, positing, and sharing texts significantly easier. Moreover, by using a variety of seamless and innovative methods, a new mode of personality construction has been developed. With case studies of high-profile stars like Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, and Michelle Yeoh, this ground-breading book examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon, and as an outcome of the participatory practices of cyber fans. By grounding the theory and praxis of Chinese stardom in a cyber-context, this book proffers a critical intervention of Chineseness and redress some inadequacies of the current scholarship on the subject by advancing the exploration of the dynamics borne out of technological apparatuses, cultural discourses, and network culture.Less
As Chinese performers have become more visible on global screens, their professional images – once the preserve of studios and agents – have been increasingly relayed and reworked by film fans. Web technology has made searching, poaching, editing, positing, and sharing texts significantly easier. Moreover, by using a variety of seamless and innovative methods, a new mode of personality construction has been developed. With case studies of high-profile stars like Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, and Michelle Yeoh, this ground-breading book examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon, and as an outcome of the participatory practices of cyber fans. By grounding the theory and praxis of Chinese stardom in a cyber-context, this book proffers a critical intervention of Chineseness and redress some inadequacies of the current scholarship on the subject by advancing the exploration of the dynamics borne out of technological apparatuses, cultural discourses, and network culture.
Shuyan Zhou
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9789888390809
- eISBN:
- 9789888390441
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390809.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Regarding the question of politics and play in Chinese Internet culture, this chapter re-examines particular effects of netizens’ carnival practices, as well as the complex interactions and ...
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Regarding the question of politics and play in Chinese Internet culture, this chapter re-examines particular effects of netizens’ carnival practices, as well as the complex interactions and contradictions among cyberculture, the official culture, and consumerism in China, by centering on a specific case of “Looking for Leehom” (zhao Lihong) and its related media discourses in 2012 and 2013. The case serves as an influential online carnival, starting from an online Boy’s Love fandom of those who participated in the fantasy matchmaking of two male celebrities. Further, it raises large questions about resistance, complicity, and negotiation among different cultures and media, particularly considering that online carnival was appropriated by a performance on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2013 and then commented on by newspapers and magazines. The chapter inspects how the pleasure of Boy’s Love fantasy has been transferred, censored, and re-enabled between cyberculture and offline societies. By rethinking Bakhtin’s interpretation of carnival, the chapter concludes by exploring the cultural and social implications of “Looking for Leehom” and the potential power of the netizens’ fantasy.Less
Regarding the question of politics and play in Chinese Internet culture, this chapter re-examines particular effects of netizens’ carnival practices, as well as the complex interactions and contradictions among cyberculture, the official culture, and consumerism in China, by centering on a specific case of “Looking for Leehom” (zhao Lihong) and its related media discourses in 2012 and 2013. The case serves as an influential online carnival, starting from an online Boy’s Love fandom of those who participated in the fantasy matchmaking of two male celebrities. Further, it raises large questions about resistance, complicity, and negotiation among different cultures and media, particularly considering that online carnival was appropriated by a performance on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2013 and then commented on by newspapers and magazines. The chapter inspects how the pleasure of Boy’s Love fantasy has been transferred, censored, and re-enabled between cyberculture and offline societies. By rethinking Bakhtin’s interpretation of carnival, the chapter concludes by exploring the cultural and social implications of “Looking for Leehom” and the potential power of the netizens’ fantasy.
Claire Taylor and Thea Pitman (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310614
- eISBN:
- 9781846313462
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846313462
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This book investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and ...
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This book investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives, collective novels and e-mags, digital art and short Net-films. It provides a sustained academic focus on this area of cultural production, and investigates the ways in which cyberliterature and cyberculture in the broadest sense are providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices and even political agency, for Latin Americans. The volume is divided into two main sections. The first comprises eight chapters on the broad area of cyberculture and identity formation/preservation including the development of different types of cybercommunity in Latin America. While many of the chapters applaud the creative potential of these new virtual communities, identities and cultural products to create networks across boundaries and offer new contestatory strategies, they also consider whether such phenomena may risk reinforcing existing social inequalities or perpetuate conservatism. The second section comprises six chapters and an afterword that deal with the nature of cyberliterature in all its many forms, from the (cyber)cultural legacies of writers such as Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, to traditional print literature from the region that reflects on the subject of new technology, to weblogs and hypertext and hypermedia fiction proper.Less
This book investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives, collective novels and e-mags, digital art and short Net-films. It provides a sustained academic focus on this area of cultural production, and investigates the ways in which cyberliterature and cyberculture in the broadest sense are providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices and even political agency, for Latin Americans. The volume is divided into two main sections. The first comprises eight chapters on the broad area of cyberculture and identity formation/preservation including the development of different types of cybercommunity in Latin America. While many of the chapters applaud the creative potential of these new virtual communities, identities and cultural products to create networks across boundaries and offer new contestatory strategies, they also consider whether such phenomena may risk reinforcing existing social inequalities or perpetuate conservatism. The second section comprises six chapters and an afterword that deal with the nature of cyberliterature in all its many forms, from the (cyber)cultural legacies of writers such as Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, to traditional print literature from the region that reflects on the subject of new technology, to weblogs and hypertext and hypermedia fiction proper.
Valerie Anishchenkova
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748643400
- eISBN:
- 9781474406321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748643400.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter examines one of the newest modes of life-writing – personal internet blogs. Cyber-writing, in its increasing diversity of form, offers perhaps the most dynamic mode of autobiographical ...
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This chapter examines one of the newest modes of life-writing – personal internet blogs. Cyber-writing, in its increasing diversity of form, offers perhaps the most dynamic mode of autobiographical construction. Firstly, blogging culture has fundamentally altered the very nature of autobiographical narration in that it put authors and their readers in direct communication, often in real time. Secondly, no longer a retrospective prose, cyber autobiographical writing has become the voice of Arab youth. This chapter explores and theorizes the genre of autoblography using Ghada Abd al-Al’s I Want to Get Married as a case study.Less
This chapter examines one of the newest modes of life-writing – personal internet blogs. Cyber-writing, in its increasing diversity of form, offers perhaps the most dynamic mode of autobiographical construction. Firstly, blogging culture has fundamentally altered the very nature of autobiographical narration in that it put authors and their readers in direct communication, often in real time. Secondly, no longer a retrospective prose, cyber autobiographical writing has become the voice of Arab youth. This chapter explores and theorizes the genre of autoblography using Ghada Abd al-Al’s I Want to Get Married as a case study.
Claire Taylor and Thea Pitman
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310614
- eISBN:
- 9781846313462
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846313462.002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This book concentrates on Latin American cyberculture, emphasising Latin American cyberliterature. It suggests that Latin American Internet users do not conceive of themselves as passive recipients ...
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This book concentrates on Latin American cyberculture, emphasising Latin American cyberliterature. It suggests that Latin American Internet users do not conceive of themselves as passive recipients of online information foisted upon them by the developed world but as active participants in cyberspace. This book shows that cyberspace can elaborate the new concepts of community and citizenship in a Latin American context. It also focuses on both the positive and negative aspects of new technologies for Latin American people and for cultural production in the region. An overview of the chapters included in this book is also offered.Less
This book concentrates on Latin American cyberculture, emphasising Latin American cyberliterature. It suggests that Latin American Internet users do not conceive of themselves as passive recipients of online information foisted upon them by the developed world but as active participants in cyberspace. This book shows that cyberspace can elaborate the new concepts of community and citizenship in a Latin American context. It also focuses on both the positive and negative aspects of new technologies for Latin American people and for cultural production in the region. An overview of the chapters included in this book is also offered.
Geoffrey Kantaris
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310614
- eISBN:
- 9781846313462
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846313462.004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter analyses a key figure of cyberculture — the cyborg — and its manifestation in two recent Latin American films. It demonstrates how the cyborg functions as a microcosm of the cultural ...
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This chapter analyses a key figure of cyberculture — the cyborg — and its manifestation in two recent Latin American films. It demonstrates how the cyborg functions as a microcosm of the cultural fusions and transfusions of the megalopolis in Guillermo del Toro's Cronos. It illustrates the socially disavowed presence of the dictatorship in Fernando Spiner's La sonámbula. It tries to show how the technological mise-en-scène is further complicated in these films. This chapter reveals that these films deploy their prototype cyborgs at the threshold of the failure of representation, on the spatio-temporal boundary where representational logic phases into and out of an order of simulation.Less
This chapter analyses a key figure of cyberculture — the cyborg — and its manifestation in two recent Latin American films. It demonstrates how the cyborg functions as a microcosm of the cultural fusions and transfusions of the megalopolis in Guillermo del Toro's Cronos. It illustrates the socially disavowed presence of the dictatorship in Fernando Spiner's La sonámbula. It tries to show how the technological mise-en-scène is further complicated in these films. This chapter reveals that these films deploy their prototype cyborgs at the threshold of the failure of representation, on the spatio-temporal boundary where representational logic phases into and out of an order of simulation.
Niamh Thornton
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310614
- eISBN:
- 9781846313462
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846313462.007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter focuses on Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a leading figure in Latin American cyberculture whose Netart straddles both political and cultural expression. It describes how Gómez-Peña investigates ...
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This chapter focuses on Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a leading figure in Latin American cyberculture whose Netart straddles both political and cultural expression. It describes how Gómez-Peña investigates the link between body, identity and nation space. It specifically analyses some of the games, identities and techniques used by him as an online performer. It shows that ‘The Chica-Iranian Project’ and ‘The Fourteen Commandments’ are areas on the website in which Gómez-Peña, and his collaborators, explore the representation of ethnic identities online and the challenges faced by subalterns in a highly stratified society in the digital age. This chapter suggests that the Internet has provided Gómez-Peña the possibilities to reach a wider audience.Less
This chapter focuses on Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a leading figure in Latin American cyberculture whose Netart straddles both political and cultural expression. It describes how Gómez-Peña investigates the link between body, identity and nation space. It specifically analyses some of the games, identities and techniques used by him as an online performer. It shows that ‘The Chica-Iranian Project’ and ‘The Fourteen Commandments’ are areas on the website in which Gómez-Peña, and his collaborators, explore the representation of ethnic identities online and the challenges faced by subalterns in a highly stratified society in the digital age. This chapter suggests that the Internet has provided Gómez-Peña the possibilities to reach a wider audience.
Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310614
- eISBN:
- 9781846313462
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846313462.011
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter discusses Jorge Luis Borges as a major literary precursor of contemporary posthumanist cyberliterature. It argues that Borges' speculative fictions and other prose writings provide ...
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This chapter discusses Jorge Luis Borges as a major literary precursor of contemporary posthumanist cyberliterature. It argues that Borges' speculative fictions and other prose writings provide glimpses of posthuman conditions that are more fully portrayed by writers such as William Gibson or Philip K. Dick. Borges' special value for critical posthumanism lies in the fact that his writings constitute an archive of the future even before it arrived. This chapter suggests that studying the connections between Borges and emerging cyberculture and its theorisation can offer significant and broader statements on the relations between literature and the post-human(ist).Less
This chapter discusses Jorge Luis Borges as a major literary precursor of contemporary posthumanist cyberliterature. It argues that Borges' speculative fictions and other prose writings provide glimpses of posthuman conditions that are more fully portrayed by writers such as William Gibson or Philip K. Dick. Borges' special value for critical posthumanism lies in the fact that his writings constitute an archive of the future even before it arrived. This chapter suggests that studying the connections between Borges and emerging cyberculture and its theorisation can offer significant and broader statements on the relations between literature and the post-human(ist).
Claire Taylor and Thea Pitman
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310614
- eISBN:
- 9781846313462
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846313462.018
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter presents concluding remarks on Latin American identity and cyberspace. It has been clearly shown that there are neo-colonialist assumptions that are fundamental to many of the ...
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This chapter presents concluding remarks on Latin American identity and cyberspace. It has been clearly shown that there are neo-colonialist assumptions that are fundamental to many of the value-laden terms that are utilised to describe online activity. In recent years, some practitioners and theorists have tried to advance new Internet terminology that resists neo-imperialist drives. This chapter suggests that the most interesting and radical use of the Internet in a Latin American context will occur if the new media allows new identities and forms of expression, and allows for the expression of postcolonial consciousnesses. Cyberspace and cyberculture may provide strategic opportunities for Latin American practitioners to express new and resistant forms of identities online in the future.Less
This chapter presents concluding remarks on Latin American identity and cyberspace. It has been clearly shown that there are neo-colonialist assumptions that are fundamental to many of the value-laden terms that are utilised to describe online activity. In recent years, some practitioners and theorists have tried to advance new Internet terminology that resists neo-imperialist drives. This chapter suggests that the most interesting and radical use of the Internet in a Latin American context will occur if the new media allows new identities and forms of expression, and allows for the expression of postcolonial consciousnesses. Cyberspace and cyberculture may provide strategic opportunities for Latin American practitioners to express new and resistant forms of identities online in the future.
Jenna Burrell
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262017367
- eISBN:
- 9780262301459
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262017367.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
This chapter explores the growing trend among urban Ghanaian youths to interact with foreigners over the Internet and establish extensive contacts. The youth of Accra repeatedly visits Internet cafés ...
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This chapter explores the growing trend among urban Ghanaian youths to interact with foreigners over the Internet and establish extensive contacts. The youth of Accra repeatedly visits Internet cafés of the region with the desire to interact with foreigners and increase their list of contacts. The cross-cultural nature of these online social interactions provides information about available literature on such digital communication and theories of cyberculture, which have been restricted by the limited socioeconomic and geographic characteristics of Internet users. An increased number of youths are also exploiting the technology and interfaces to engage in fraudulent missions over the Internet. These people are exploiting the weaknesses of foreigners and engaging in fraudulent missions, taking undue advantage of the online media.Less
This chapter explores the growing trend among urban Ghanaian youths to interact with foreigners over the Internet and establish extensive contacts. The youth of Accra repeatedly visits Internet cafés of the region with the desire to interact with foreigners and increase their list of contacts. The cross-cultural nature of these online social interactions provides information about available literature on such digital communication and theories of cyberculture, which have been restricted by the limited socioeconomic and geographic characteristics of Internet users. An increased number of youths are also exploiting the technology and interfaces to engage in fraudulent missions over the Internet. These people are exploiting the weaknesses of foreigners and engaging in fraudulent missions, taking undue advantage of the online media.
Thierry Bardini
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816667505
- eISBN:
- 9781452946580
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816667505.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Are we made of junk? This book believes we are. Examining an array of cybernetic structures from genetic codes to communication networks, it explores the idea that most of culture and nature, ...
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Are we made of junk? This book believes we are. Examining an array of cybernetic structures from genetic codes to communication networks, it explores the idea that most of culture and nature, including humans, is composed primarily of useless, but always potentially recyclable, material otherwise known as “junk.” This book unravels the presence of junk at the interface between science fictions and fictions of science, showing that molecular biology and popular culture since the early 1960s belong to the same culture—cyberculture—which is essentially a culture of junk. He draws on a wide variety of sources, including the writings of Philip K. Dick and William S. Burroughs, interviews with scientists as well as “crackpots,” and work in genetics, cybernetics, and physics to support his contention that junk DNA represents a blind spot in our understanding of life. At the same time, this book examines the cultural history that led to the encoding and decoding of life itself and the contemporary turning of these codes into a commodity. But it also contends that, beyond good and evil, the essential “junkiness” of this new subject is both the symptom and the potential cure.Less
Are we made of junk? This book believes we are. Examining an array of cybernetic structures from genetic codes to communication networks, it explores the idea that most of culture and nature, including humans, is composed primarily of useless, but always potentially recyclable, material otherwise known as “junk.” This book unravels the presence of junk at the interface between science fictions and fictions of science, showing that molecular biology and popular culture since the early 1960s belong to the same culture—cyberculture—which is essentially a culture of junk. He draws on a wide variety of sources, including the writings of Philip K. Dick and William S. Burroughs, interviews with scientists as well as “crackpots,” and work in genetics, cybernetics, and physics to support his contention that junk DNA represents a blind spot in our understanding of life. At the same time, this book examines the cultural history that led to the encoding and decoding of life itself and the contemporary turning of these codes into a commodity. But it also contends that, beyond good and evil, the essential “junkiness” of this new subject is both the symptom and the potential cure.
Thierry Bardini
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816667505
- eISBN:
- 9781452946580
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816667505.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter discusses the metaphysics and ethics of posthumanity through Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s 1980 book A Thousand Plateaus, which claims that societies are moving into the era of the ...
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This chapter discusses the metaphysics and ethics of posthumanity through Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s 1980 book A Thousand Plateaus, which claims that societies are moving into the era of the machine of the fourth kind or genetic capitalism where sequences, genes, cells, and organs are becoming the new commodities. It discusses the Deleuzo–Guattarian framework in connection with the French legislative invention of “the crime against the species” and other contemporary phenomena that deal with biotechnological and biopolitical innovations. The chapter concludes with an analysis of cyberculture in the capacity of junk culture, and the central metaphysical notions of “common nature” and individuation.Less
This chapter discusses the metaphysics and ethics of posthumanity through Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s 1980 book A Thousand Plateaus, which claims that societies are moving into the era of the machine of the fourth kind or genetic capitalism where sequences, genes, cells, and organs are becoming the new commodities. It discusses the Deleuzo–Guattarian framework in connection with the French legislative invention of “the crime against the species” and other contemporary phenomena that deal with biotechnological and biopolitical innovations. The chapter concludes with an analysis of cyberculture in the capacity of junk culture, and the central metaphysical notions of “common nature” and individuation.
Chris Wells
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190203610
- eISBN:
- 9780190203658
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190203610.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics, Democratization
This chapter builds on the foundation offered by Chapter 1 to offer a theoretical account of changes underway in many citizens’ experiences and expectations of civic information. To do so it ...
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This chapter builds on the foundation offered by Chapter 1 to offer a theoretical account of changes underway in many citizens’ experiences and expectations of civic information. To do so it theorizes two civic information styles, one corresponding to mid-twentieth-century, modern civic life, and one characterizing the experience of more recent, younger, and digital generations. Terming the former style dutiful and the latter actualizing, the chapter draws on social theory on the changing bases of civic identity and studies of digital media and the values with which they are imbued to outline key preferences and forms of communicative exchange more aligned with each civic information style. While not implying that citizens or communications can be neatly sorted into one civic information style or the other, this framework serves to illustrate a trajectory of communication change ongoing within society.Less
This chapter builds on the foundation offered by Chapter 1 to offer a theoretical account of changes underway in many citizens’ experiences and expectations of civic information. To do so it theorizes two civic information styles, one corresponding to mid-twentieth-century, modern civic life, and one characterizing the experience of more recent, younger, and digital generations. Terming the former style dutiful and the latter actualizing, the chapter draws on social theory on the changing bases of civic identity and studies of digital media and the values with which they are imbued to outline key preferences and forms of communicative exchange more aligned with each civic information style. While not implying that citizens or communications can be neatly sorted into one civic information style or the other, this framework serves to illustrate a trajectory of communication change ongoing within society.
