Times of the Technoculture

Kevin Robins is Professor of Cultural Geography at the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Newcastle. Frank Webster is Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham.

• Introduction: the changing technoscape PART I Techno-visions 1 A cultural history of Pandaemonium 2 Engaging with Luddism 3 The hollowing of progress PART II Genealogies of information 4 The long history of the information revolution 5 The cybernetic imagination of capitalism 6 Propaganda: the hidden face of information PART III The politics of cyberspace 7 Cyberwars: the military information revolution 8 Education as knowledge and discipline 9 Deconstructing the academy: the new production of human capital PART IV Living in virtual space 10 Prospects of a virtual culture 11 The virtual pacification of space