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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Barbrook, Richard. Imaginary futures. London : Pluto, 2007 (OCoLC)654515621 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Barbrook |
| ISBN: | 9780745326610 0745326617 0745326609 9780745326603 |
| OCLC Number: | 78989192 |
| Awards: | Winner of Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology 2008. |
| Description: | vii, 334 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | 1: The Future Is What It Used To Be; 2: The American Century; 3: Cold War Computing; 4: The Human Machine; 5: Cybernetic Supremacy; 6: The Global Village; 7: The Cold War Left; 8: The Chosen Few; 9: Free Workers In The Affluent Society; 10: The Prophets Of Post-Industrialism; 11: The American Road to Cybernetic Communism; 12: The Leader Of The Free World; 13: The Great Game; 14: The American Invasion Of Vietnam; 15: Those Who Forget The Future Are Condemned To Repeat It; References; Index. |
| Responsibility: | Richard Barbrook. |
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'Imaginary Futures: from thinking machines to the global village' by Richard Barbrook has won the the 2008 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology. -- Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology Barbrook has an amusing take on our distorted - if not delusional - relationship with technology, but his underlying point is serious: future visions of technology are used to distract us and also control us, and if we forget these imaginary futures, we are likely to repeat them. -- Guardian Unlimited Barbrook has an amusing take on our distorted - if not delusional - relationship with technology, but his underlying point is serious: future visions of technology are used to distract us and also control us, and if we forget these imaginary futures, we are likely to repeat them. -- Guardian Unlimited A compelling, authoritative, and painstakingly documented narrative, Imaginary Futures traces the emergence of the computer era in the context of desperately competing ideologies, economics, and empires. This is a work of passionate and persuasive scholarship by a contemporary social theorist at the top of his game. -- Douglas Rushkoff, author, Coercion, Media Virus, Get Back in the Box. A compelling, authoritative, and painstakingly documented narrative, Imaginary Futures traces the emergence of the computer era in the context of desperately competing ideologies, economics, and empires. This is a work of passionate and persuasive scholarship by a contemporary social theorist at the top of his game. -- Douglas Rushkoff, author, Coercion, Media Virus, Get Back in the Box. Imaginary Futures gives insight into how the dominant utopias of today were shaped in the time of the Cold War and served the ideological needs of the elites. While the Cold War West had a much better present, it was the Soviet East which had a vision of the future. The invention of a Western utopia became an important factor in the struggle for global power. -- Boris Kagarlitsky, Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Comparative Political Studies, the Russian Academy of Sciences Imaginary Futures gives insight into how the dominant utopias of today were shaped in the time of the Cold War and served the ideological needs of the elites. While the Cold War West had a much better present, it was the Soviet East which had a vision of the future. The invention of a Western utopia became an important factor in the struggle for global power. -- Boris Kagarlitsky, Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Comparative Political Studies, the Russian Academy of Sciences Read more...
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