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The Arc and the machine is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture, and forces a re-appraisal of how information technology, read as a material cultural form, is understood in relation to the questions of innovation and transformation.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Narrative machines
2. ‘Beautiful Patterns of Bits’: cybernetics, interfaces, new media
Part 1: The thing itself: technology and determination
Part 2: Contemporary technocultures
3. Those with whom the archive dwells
4. Annihilating all that’s made? legends of virtual community
5. ‘Just Because’ stories: On Elephant

The ARC and the Machine

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/12/2007
      ISBN13: 9780719073427, 978-0719073427
      ISBN10: 719073421

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Arc and the machine is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture, and forces a re-appraisal of how information technology, read as a material cultural form, is understood in relation to the questions of innovation and transformation.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Narrative machines
      2. ‘Beautiful Patterns of Bits’: cybernetics, interfaces, new media
      Part 1: The thing itself: technology and determination
      Part 2: Contemporary technocultures
      3. Those with whom the archive dwells
      4. Annihilating all that’s made? legends of virtual community
      5. ‘Just Because’ stories: On Elephant

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