Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths, University of London; Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee. His publications include Timeshift: On Video Culture, Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture, Digital Aesthetics, Simulation and Social Theory, The Cinema Effect and EcoMedia. He is the series editor for Leonardo Books at MIT Press. Current research is on the history and philosophy of visual technologies, on media art history and on ecocriticism and mediation.
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Introduction The Long Term PART ONE: THEORIES Values, Signs and Subjects Technology, Information and Reason The Poetics of Pessimism Making Sense of Simulation PART TWO: CASES Disney World Culture War in the Persian Gulf Working with Computers Conclusion Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will
`Overall this is an excellent book which shouuld be of interest to any social scientist who wants to keep up with the general character of understanding in our iner-disciplinary field' - The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation