Coming from City Lights Books in June 1995--

RESISTING THE VIRTUAL LIFE
The Culture and Politics of Information

Edited by James Brook and Iain A. Boal

"At last, a defiant radical critique of the information millenium....
 A burning barricade across the highway to the total surveillance
 society."
                        --Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz

Resisting the Virtual Life lays bare the connections between
information technologies and the abstract, virtual life that all of
us--technophile and Luddite--are now compelled to lead. Scholars,
writers, artists, and activists gauge the unsettling effects of the new
video, computer, and networked communications on our ways of life in a
restructured world. Exposing relations of power and dependence, they
offer strategies of resistance to the global rewiring of body and
psyche, work and community, literature and art.

The New Information Enclosures: A Flow of Monsters: Luddism and Virtual
Technologies - Iain A. Boal * The Global Information Highway: Project
for an Ungovernable World - Herbert I. Schiller * It's Discrimination,
Stupid! - Oscar H. Gandy Jr. * Women and Children First: Gender and the
Settling of the Electronic Frontier - Laura Miller * From Internet to
Information Superhighway - Howard Besser * Media Activism and Radical
Democracy - Jesse Drew * Making Technology Democratic - Richard E.
Sclove

Rewiring the Body: Soldier, Cyborg, Citizen - Kevin Robins and Les
Levidow * Body, Brain, and Communication - George Lakoff * Out of Time:
Reflections on the Programming Life - E. A. Ullman * Sade and
Cyberspace - John Simmons

Degrading Work: Info Fetishism - Doug Henwood * Digital Palsy: RSI and
Restructuring Capital - R. Dennis Hayes * Computers, Thinking, and
Schools in "the New World Economic Order" - Monty Neill * The Aesthetic
of the Computer - Daniel Harris

The Repainting of Modern Life: Banalities of Information - Marina
McDougall * The Garden of Merging Paths - Rebecca Solnit * The Shape of
Truth to Come: New Media and Knowledge - Chris Carlsson * Drowning by
MicroGallery - Chris Riding * In the Tracks of Jurassic Park - Phil
Tippett * Reading and Riding with Borges - James Brook

Resisting the Virtual Life 0-87286-299-2 $14.95 (June 1995) For
personal orders, write: City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Ave., San
Francisco, CA 94133. For bookstore, wholesaler, and library orders,
write: Subterranean Co., P.O. Box 160, 265 S. 5th St., Monroe, OR
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