ABSTRACT

Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century.
The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and consider the centrality of education in government attempts to create a knowledge society. Engaging in contemporary debates surrounding the internet, Robins and Webster question whether it can really offer us a new world of virtual communities, and suggest more radical alternatives to the corporate agenda of contemporary technologies.

chapter |10 pages

INTRODUCTION

part |2 pages

PART I TECHNO-VISIONS

chapter 1|26 pages

A CULTURAL HISTORY OF PANDAEMONIUM

chapter 2|24 pages

ENGAGING WITH LUDDISM

chapter 3|22 pages

THE HOLLOWING OF PROGRESS

part |2 pages

PART II GENEALOGIES OF INFORMATION

part |2 pages

PART III THE POLITICS OF CYBERSPACE

chapter 8|22 pages

EDUCATION AS KNOWLEDGE AND DISCIPLINE

chapter 9|26 pages

DECONSTRUCTING THE ACADEMY

part |2 pages

PART IV LIVING IN VIRTUAL SPACE

chapter 10|16 pages

Prospects of a virtual culture

chapter 11|22 pages

THE VIRTUAL PACIFICATION OF SPACE