Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9780761961109 Academic Inspection Copy

Simulation and Social Theory

  • ISBN-13: 9780761961109
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
  • By Sean Cubitt
  • Price: AUD $183.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/07/2008
  • Format: Paperback (234.00mm X 156.00mm) 192 pages Weight: 300g
  • Categories: Media studies [JFD]Social theory [JHBA]
Description
Author
Biography
Table of
Contents
Reviews
Google
Preview
This insightful book is the first to critically examine the ideas of some of the key thinkers of simulation. It addresses the work of Baudrillard, Debord, Virilio and Eco, clarifying their arguments by referring to the intellectual and social worlds each emerged from distilling what is important from their discussions. The book argues for a critical and selective use of the concept of simulation. Like the idea of ideology, simulation is a political theory, but it has also become a deeply pessimistic theory of the end of history and the impossibility of positive change. Through a series of reflections on the meaning of theme parks, warfare and computer modelling, Sean Cubitt demonstrates the strengths and limitations of the simulation thesis.
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.
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
Google Preview content