- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press (15 Sep 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262193620
- ISBN-13: 978-0262193627
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.4 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,813,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"From its title to its subject the impact of cybertechnologies onthe construction of identity Stone"s book is undeniably sexy...simultaneously provocative and infuriating...never vanilla." The Women"s Review of Books
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In this work, Allucquere Rosanne Stone examines the myriad ways modern technology is challenging traditional notions of gender identity. Face-to-face meetings, and even telephone conversations, involuntarily reveal crucial aspects of identity such as gender, age and race. However, these bits of identity are completely masked by computer-mediated communications; all that is revealed is what we "choose" to reveal - and then only if we choose to tell the truth. The rise of computer-mediated communications is giving people the means to try on alternative personae - in a sense, to reinvent themeselves - which, as Stone compellingly argues, has both positive and potentially destructive implications. The book moves between accounts of the modern interface of technology and desire: from busy cyberlabs to the electronic solitude of the Internet, from phone sex to "virtual cross-dressers", from the Vampire Lestat to the trial of a man accused of having raped a woman by seducing one of her multiple personalities. Throughout, Stone wrestles with the question of how best to convey a complex description of a culture whose chief activity is complex description. Writing of creating a "text that breaks rules", serving as a "sampler of possible choices", she employs elements from a wide range of disciplines and genres, including cultural and critical theory, social sciences, pulp journalism, science fiction, and personal memoirs. In the final chapter, Stone threads the various narratives together, a process that best reflects the confused, ambiguous and sometimes contradictory state of gender relations at the close of the mechanical age.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For technology lovers and technophobes, and even for those who don't think about the man/machine relationship at all, Stone's book offers intimate accounts of how humanity is dealing with the computer age. Some are anecdotes, some are discussions of theory, and there is a corporate history of Atari that had me on the edge of my seat (really). War of Desire and Technology is a quick and fun read that gives you much to think about.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Love, violence, sex, humor and philosophy in one small book.
8 Mar 1997
Format:Paperback
For technology lovers and technophobes, and even for those who don't think about the man/machine relationship at all, Stone's book offers intimate accounts of how humanity is dealing with the computer age. Some are anecdotes, some are discussions of theory, and there is a corporate history of Atari that had me on the edge of my seat (really). War of Desire and Technology is a quick and fun read that gives you much to think about
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
a book about breaking rules and trespassing borders
13 May 1996
Format:Hardcover
Allucquere Rosanne Stone is one of the most fascinating writers
in this moment. Her book, "The War of Desire and Technology"
explores a changing world, in transicion between science and
mythology. As Orwell and Huxley warned about, our world is fastening
its pace around the axe time and place. Machines and tools are
executing the utopias, making dreams and nightmares come true.
Stone's book is a challenging book, with questions and a few answers,
a book for seekers and poets. The encounter between feelings
and facts is described by Stone as a meeting between two worlds
in permanent fight, two pictures painted by blind painters,
who has never seen any colours.
The War of Desire and Technology is a book about nomads and cyborgs,
lonely hackers and autists, leftovers from the time before
the beginning, when the earth was new and the ages were newborn.
in this moment. Her book, "The War of Desire and Technology"
explores a changing world, in transicion between science and
mythology. As Orwell and Huxley warned about, our world is fastening
its pace around the axe time and place. Machines and tools are
executing the utopias, making dreams and nightmares come true.
Stone's book is a challenging book, with questions and a few answers,
a book for seekers and poets. The encounter between feelings
and facts is described by Stone as a meeting between two worlds
in permanent fight, two pictures painted by blind painters,
who has never seen any colours.
The War of Desire and Technology is a book about nomads and cyborgs,
lonely hackers and autists, leftovers from the time before
the beginning, when the earth was new and the ages were newborn.
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