New from City Lights Books--

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.

Contents--

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 - Ellen 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 $15.95 (June 1995) For
personal orders, write: City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Ave., San
Francisco, CA 94133. For bookstore, wholesaler, and library orders,
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