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Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society
Steven Shaviro
Series: Electronic Mediations
Volume: 9
Copyright Date: 2003
Edition: NED - New edition
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 312
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttszh7
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Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society
Book Description:

Connected is made up of a series of mini-essays—on cyberpunk, hip-hop, film noir, Web surfing, greed, electronic surveillance, pervasive multimedia, psychedelic drugs, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary psychology, among other topics. In this breathtaking work, Steven Shaviro investigates popular culture, new technologies, political change, and community disruption and concludes that science fiction and social reality have become virtually indistinguishable.

eISBN: 978-0-8166-9601-7
Subjects: Technology
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii)
  3. Preface
    Preface (pp. ix-xii)
  4. Acknowledgments
    Acknowledgments (pp. xiii-xiv)
  5. Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society
    Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society (pp. 1-250)

    Only Connect. The wordconnectis an obscenity in the world of K. W. Jeter’s science fiction novelNoir. People are always saying things like “connect you, mother-connector” (27) or “connect that” (192) or “get the connect outta here” (200). In short, if you’re connected, you’re fucked. Reach out and touch someone? It’s the worst thing that could happen to you. Every connection has its price; the one thing you can be sure of is that, sooner or later, you will have to pay. The big problem today, we are told, is how to get everybody connected, how to get...

  6. Notes
    Notes (pp. 251-262)
  7. Bibliography
    Bibliography (pp. 263-278)
  8. Filmography
    Filmography (pp. 279-280)
  9. Index
    Index (pp. 281-289)
  10. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 290-290)
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