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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Myths of information. Madison, WI : Coda Press, c1980 (OCoLC)756446464 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kathleen M Woodward |
| ISBN: | 0930956125 : 9780930956127 0930956133 : 9780930956134 |
| OCLC Number: | 6487590 |
| Description: | xxvi, 250 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Communications theory, history, and cultural difference -- Myths of the informational society / Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- Epistemology of communication / Heinz von Foerster -- Information and communication in poly-epistemological systems / Magoroh Maruyama -- "Voice" and "print" : master symbols in the history of communication / Eric Leed -- Technology, mass culture, and the public sphere -- Mass media : tools of domination or instruments of emancipation? Aspects of the Frankfurt school's communications analysis / Oskar Negt -- The instrumentalization of fantasy : fairy tales and the mass media / Jack Zipes -- The political economy of social space / Andrew Feenberg -- Irony and anarchy : technology and the utopian sensibility / David Hall -- The implosion of meaning in the media and the implosion of the social in the masses / Jean Baudrillard -- Art and technology : the avant garde -- The hidden dialectic : the avant garde - technology - mass culture / Andreas Huyssen -- Art and technology : alienation or survival? / Mikel Dufrenne -- Art and technics : John Cage, electronics, and world improvement / Kathleen Woodward -- Music, voice, waves / Daniel Charles -- Art and technology : the panacea that failed / Jack Burnham -- Cybernetics, constraints, and self-control -- Changing frames of order : cybernetics and the machina mundi / Anthony Wilden -- The power of technique and the ethics of non-power / Jacques Ellul. |
| Series Title: | Theories of contemporary culture, v. 2. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Kathleen Woodward. |
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