Magic and loss : the Internet as art

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Label

Magic and loss : the Internet as art

Title remainder

the Internet as art

Statement of responsibility

Virginia Heffernan

Title variation

Magic & loss

Creator

• trueHeffernan, Virginia
• Heffernan, Virginia, 1969-

Author

• Heffernan, Virginia, 1969-

Subject

• trueInternet
• trueInternet -- Social aspects
• trueDigital media -- Social aspects
• trueDigital media
• trueCulture

Language

eng

Summary

Cultural critic Virginia Heffernan illuminates the logic, aesthetics, and mysteries of the Internet. Heffernan sees the digital revolution as one of the great developments of human civilization. Magic and Loss travels the roads of digital culture, as well as many of its back alleys, to find a world with its own logic, its own rhythms, its own ideology, and its own culture. Brilliantly cataloging and critically describing basic human experiences--talking to a friend on the phone, walking down a sidewalk, listening to music, reading a book--Heffernan charts how the Internet has made magic of so many of our aesthetic experiences. But she also points out how the physical and emotional experience of the world we knew live, ten, twenty years ago is vanishing. Where there's magic, there's also loss. This witty, erudite, and intellectually thrilling book dares to find meaning--and even beauty--in the digital revolution.--Adapted from dust jacket

Writing style

• trueCompelling

Cataloging source

CGL

Dewey number

303.48/33

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction