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Cyberculture Theorists – Manuel Castells and Donna Haraway by David Bell

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By David Bell

David Bell's quantity will introduce key principles and issues inside cybertheory, then movement directly to talk about the key recommendations constructed by means of the 3 theorists --Donna Haraway, Sherry Turkle and Sean Cubitt, overlaying Haraway's foundational paintings on cyborgs, Sherry Turkle's contribution to debates approximately id in our on-line world, and Sean Cubitt's improvement of cybertheory into the area of aesthetics and visible tradition.

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Life on the screen carries theory’ (Turkle 1995: 47, 49). Indeed,Turkle peppers her book with theory, drawn from a wide range of sources, which she then connects cleanly to computing culture. She repeats time and again that life on the screen is a way of bringing postmodern theory down to earth, a way of showing how people are living the ideas she herself found hard to handle when exposed to them in what she calls her ‘French lessons’ – her encounters with the ideas of French theorists of postmodernism.

Here he is concerned with the dematerialization of communication – or, perhaps, we might say its ‘redematerialization’ after it had first been materialized in printing, recording, photography, etc. Crucially, this dematerialization erases the constraints on communication made by geography, at all scales, from the global to the local (he gives the WORLD 3 Austrian-born British philosopher Karl Popper (1902 – 98) proposed the idea of the existence of three ‘worlds’: World 1, the world of physical objects, events and biological entities; World 2, the world of mental events and objects; World 3, the world of products of the human mind, or abstract objects (theories, formulae, learning).

185). Through extensive talk with players, and through participation, Turkle shows the different ways MUDs work as objects-to-think-identity-with. She raises the then-controversial issues of online deception and ‘virtual rape’, highlighting the costs of identity play in cyberspace. She also discusses the therapeutic potential of MUDs, asking whether they allow ‘working through’ or only ‘acting out’ of psychological issues. On the basis of her research, she is unsure how to call these questions, finding clear examples on both sides.

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