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Cyber Reader

by · 2002

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This text is an introduction to key texts related to the theme of cyberspace - the virtual communicative space created by digital technologies - offering the reader an overview of cyberspace theories through extracts of some of the best writings of this wide-ranging subject. Cyberspace culture is itself cross-disciplinary: this book includes texts from a variety of fields concerned with cyberspace - science, complexity theory, philosophy and metaphysics, sexual politics, art and architecture as well as science fiction - illustrating how these different disciplines inform one another, providing an illuminating and original collection of key extracts from books and essays on the subject.

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philosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of this
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science fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of this
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technologytechnologyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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