Othermindedness: The Emergence of Network Culture (Studies in Literature & Science) - Softcover

Michael Thomas Joyce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472088432 ISBN 13: 9780472088430

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2001

Synopsis

Michael Joyce's new collection continues to examine the connections between the poles of art and instruction, writing and teaching in the form of what Joyce has called theoretical narratives, pieces that are both narratives of theory and texts in which theory often takes the form of narrative. His concerns include hypertext and interactive fiction, the geography of cyberspace, and interactive film, and Joyce here searches out the emergence of network culture in spaces ranging from the shifting nature of the library to MOOs and other virtual spaces to life along a river. While in this collection Joyce continues to be one of our most lyrical, wide-ranging, and informed cultural critics and theorists of new media, his essays exhibit an evolving distrust of unconsidered claims for newness in the midst of what Joyce calls "the blizzard of the next," as well as a recurrent insistence upon grounding our experience of the emergence of network culture in the body. Michael Joyce is Associate Professor of English, Vassar College. He is author of a number of hypertext fictions on the web and on disk, most notably Afternoon: A Story. His previous books are Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics and Moral Tale and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions.

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Othermindedness Meditations on network culture, hypertext, the geography of cyberspace, and interactive film Full description

Synopsis

This collection of writings by Michael Joyce addresses the changes taking place as cyberspace pervades more of human culture and hypertext, network culture and interactivity play a greater role in the lives of individuals.'

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472088432
• ISBN 13: 9780472088430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264