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ISBN: 0822315319

ISBN13: 9780822315315

Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture

Name: Seminal Cyberpunk Discourse
Item: Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture
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by Claudia Springer, Marc Laidlaw, Gareth Branwyn, et al.

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Book Overview

"Flame Wars," the verbal firefights that take place between disembodied combatants on electronic bulletin boards, remind us that our interaction with the world is increasingly mediated by computers. Bit by digital bit we are being "Borged," as devotees of Star Trek: The Next Generation would have it--transformed into cyborgian hybrids of technology and biology through our ever more frequent interaction with machines, or with one another through technological...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0822315319

ISBN13:9780822315315

Release Date:December 1994

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:354 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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Seminal Cyberpunk Discourse

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Slackerbabble, fringe technoculture, magic and cyberspace, memes, calculating engines, virtual environments and synthetic reason. Flame Wars has it all.. /dvr