The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (Hardcover)
暫譯: 數位崇高:神話、權力與網路空間 (精裝版)
Vincent Mosco
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2004-02-27
- 售價: $558
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 232
- 裝訂: Hardcover
- ISBN: 026213439X
- ISBN-13: 9780262134392
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The digital era promises, as did many other technological developments before it, the transformation of society: with the computer, we can transcend time, space, and politics-as-usual. In The Digital Sublime, Vincent Mosco goes beyond the usual stories of technological breakthrough and economic meltdown to explore the myths constructed around the new digital technology and why we feel compelled to believe in them. He tells us that what kept enthusiastic investors in the dotcom era bidding up stocks even after the crash had begun was not willful ignorance of the laws of economics but belief in the myth that cyberspace was opening up a new world.
Myths are not just falsehoods that can be disproved, Mosco points out, but stories that lift us out of the banality of everyday life into the possibility of the sublime. He argues that if we take what we know about cyberspace and situate it within what we know about culture -- specifically the central post-Cold War myths of the end of history, geography, and politics -- we will add to our knowledge about the digital world; we need to see it "with both eyes" -- that is, to understand it both culturally and materially.
After examining the myths of cyberspace and going back in history to look at the similar mythic pronouncements prompted by past technological advances -- the telephone, the radio, and television, among others -- Mosco takes us to Ground Zero. In the final chapter he considers the twin towers of the World Trade Center -- our icons of communication, information, and trade -- and their part in the politics, economics, and myths of cyberspace.
Vincent Mosco is Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society in the Department of Sociology at Queen's University and the author of The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and Renewal.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii 1 The Secret of Life 1 2 Myth and Cyberspace 17 3 Cyberspace and the End of History 55 4 Loose Ends: The Death of Distance, the End of Politics 85 5 When Old Myths Were New: The Ever-Ending Story 117 6 From Ground Zero to Cyberspace and Back Again 141 Notes 185 References 197 Index 213
商品描述(中文翻譯)
**描述:**
數位時代承諾著,正如許多之前的技術發展一樣,社會的轉型:透過電腦,我們可以超越時間、空間和政治的常態。在《數位崇高》中,文森特·莫斯科(Vincent Mosco)超越了技術突破和經濟崩潰的常規故事,探討圍繞新數位技術所構建的神話,以及為何我們感到被迫相信這些神話。他告訴我們,讓熱情的投資者在網路泡沫時代即使在崩潰開始後仍然不斷推高股價的原因,不是對經濟法則的故意無知,而是對網路空間開啟新世界的神話的信仰。
莫斯科指出,神話不僅僅是可以被駁斥的虛假,而是將我們從日常生活的平凡中提升到崇高可能性的故事。他主張,如果我們將對網路空間的認識置於對文化的理解之中——特別是冷戰後關於歷史、地理和政治結束的中心神話——我們將增進對數位世界的認識;我們需要用「雙眼」來看待它——也就是說,從文化和物質兩方面理解它。
在檢視網路空間的神話並回顧歷史,觀察過去技術進步所引發的類似神話宣告——如電話、廣播和電視等——之後,莫斯科帶我們來到「零地帶」。在最後一章中,他考慮了世界貿易中心的雙子塔——我們的通信、資訊和貿易的象徵——以及它們在網路空間的政治、經濟和神話中的角色。
文森特·莫斯科是加拿大皇后大學社會學系的傳播與社會研究主席,也是《傳播的政治經濟學:重新思考與更新》的作者。
**目錄:**
- 致謝 .................................................. vii
- 1 生命的秘密 ........................................ 1
- 2 神話與網路空間 .................................. 17
- 3 網路空間與歷史的終結 .......................... 55
- 4 鬆散的結尾:距離的消亡,政治的終結 .......... 85
- 5 當舊神話變新:永無止境的故事 .................. 117
- 6 從零地帶到網路空間再回來 ...................... 141
- 註釋 .................................................. 185
- 參考文獻 ............................................ 197
- 索引 .................................................. 213