HISTORY 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Larry Mccaffery, H. G. Wells, Donna Haraway

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New culture imagining computer as personal device begins to emerge. From hippies and the personal computer to punks and cyberspace . Punks, 19702 uk &us bleak job opportunities racial and ethnic tensions counterculture economic, social crisis of the 1970s style as politics negation, dehumanization as modes of protest. To use technology as a weapon against itself and to seize the control of its form from the banalizing effects if the media industry and reestablish a sense of penance, intensity - larry mccaffery. Science ction (ex: cyrano de bergerac, jules verne, hg wells) Speculations on the scienti c future observations of the estranged self. Hard-boiled crime detective ction and lm noir (ex: casa blanca) Experimental avant-garde ction (ex: naked lunch by burroughs) A shift from the countercultural vision to something darker, bleaker, more troubling. The dehumanizing uses of dehumanized beings? cyberpunk take on cybernetics.

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