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February 2000
7 x 9, 320 pp., 50 illus.
$29.00/£17.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-62137-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-62137-3

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Leonardo Books
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Table of Contents
The Digital Dialectic
New Essays on New Media
Edited by Peter Lunenfeld

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.

About the Editor

Peter Lunenfeld is the author of Snap to Grid: A User's Guide to Digital Arts, Media & Cultures (MIT Press, 2000), editor of The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (MIT Press, 1999), and editorial director of the Mediawork series. He is a professor in the Design | Media Arts department at UCLA.


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"This book delivers in grand, thought-provoking style... an entertaining, unqualified success."
Geoff Rotunno, Library Journal





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