Unfinished business / Peter Lunenfeld -- The cyberspace dialectic / Michael Heim -- The ethical life of the digital aesthetic / Carol Gigliotti -- The condition of virtuality / N. Katherine Hayles -- From cybernation to interaction : a contribution to an archeology of interactivity / Erkki Huhtamo -- Replacing place / William J. Mitchell -- The medium is the memory / Florian Brody -- Hypertext as collage-writing / George P. Landow -- What is digital cinema? / Lev Manovich -- "We could be better ancestors than this" : ethics and first principles for the art of the digital age / Bob Stein -- Musings on amusements in America, or, What I did on my summer vacation / Brenda Laurel
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"The Digital Dialectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms. Unlike purely academic texts on new media, the book includes contributions by scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, who combine theoretical investigations with hands-on analysis of the possibilities (and limitations) of new technology. The key concept is the digital dialectic: a method to ground the insights of theory in the constraints of practice. The essays move beyond journalistic reportage and hype into serious but accessible discussion of new technologies, new media, and new cultural forms."--Jacket