cyberculture
and its
(dis)contents
comp 380: computers & society
w
hat is culture?
Traditions and customs; symbols;
transmission
Geography
Products
Values versus behavior
Subcultures
More?
what/where is cyberspace?
Cyberspace. A consensual
hallucination
experienced
daily by millions of legitimate
operators...A graphic representation of data
abstracted from the banks of every computer
in the human system. Unthinkable complexity.
Lines of light ranged in the
nonspace
of the
mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like
city lights, receding
.
--
William Gibson,
Neuromancer
,
1984
in and between our computers but also in
and of the imagination
t
he stories we tell about the
world/online
material
stories: what
is it? what's its
history?
symbolic
stories: what
does it mean? what
does it say about us?
experiential
stories: what
happens to us
there
?
Michael
Benedikt
, 1991:
Naming and Shaping the
Space
1. Cyberspace: the tablet become a page
become a
screen become a world, a virtual
world. Everywhere and nowhere, a place
where nothing is forgotten and yet
everything changes
. (MB)
2
. The
etherialization
of the world we live
in...the concretization of the world we dream
and think in
. (MB)
Cyberspace should be magic. (MB)
Symbolic doing
World 3 (Karl Popper)
Benedikt’s
principles of
cyberspace design
Exclusion
Maximal exclusion
Indifference
Scale
Transit
Personal visibility
Commonality
Sherry
Turkle
and the Screen
Identity
Aliveness
Community
Liminality
Virtual social mobility
Maria
Bakardjieva
Theory should be shaped by our stories
User versus consumer
Types of human
-
technology relationship via
Don
Ihde
: embodiment, hermeneutic,
alterity
(background)
Everyday life and the
lifeworld
, where the
self is made
The home
The Singularity and the
posthuman
Material changes to the body: genetic
engineering, prosthetics, implants
The changing boundaries of the body
Alternative ways of thinking about the body:
a critique of the Enlightenment notions of
binary divisions and the integrated subject
Moving beyond Enlightenment
-
era
humanism to a new sense of identity and
possibility
Cyberfeminism
“Perhaps, ironically, we can learn from our
fusions with animals and machines how not
to be Man, the embodiment of Western
logos.”
–
Donna
Haraway
Sadie Plant: The Internet is essentially
feminine. Why?
Sarah
Kember
critiques Plant. How? What
do you think?
Tim
Dant’s
notion of “assemblage
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