Digital Magic, Cybernetic Sorcery: On the Cultural Politics of Fascination and Fear

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dc.contributor.authorPfohl, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-09T23:15:25Z
dc.date.available2015-10-09T23:15:25Z
dc.date.copyright2010en_US
dc.date.issued2010-03-12
dc.description.abstractStephen Pfohl is a Professor in the Sociology Department at Boston College where he teaches courses on social theory, deviance and social control, postmodernity, social psychoanalysis, and the sociology of technology, art, and culture. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Images of Deviance and Social Control (McGraw Hill, 1994), Death at the Parasite Café (St. Martin’s Press, 1992), and Left Behind: Religion, Technology and Flight from the Flesh (NWP/CTheory Books, 2008). He is the co-editor of Culture, Power and History: Studies in Critical Sociology (Brill Publishers, 2006) and author of the forthcoming Venus in Video: Cybernetics and Ultramodern Power. Stephen is also a past president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, a video maker and performing artist, member of the editorial board of the journal CTheory, and founding member of the Boston-based Sit-Com International.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusUnrevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSSHRC Image, Text, Sound and Technology Summer Institute, Workshop and Conference Grant – Critical Digital Studies Workshopen_US
dc.identifier.citationPohl, Stephen. "Digital Magic, Cybernetic Sorcery: On the Cultural Politics of Fascination and Fear." Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture, Victoria, B.C. 12 March 2010. Presentation.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://pactac.net/2010/03/digital-magic-cybernetic-sorcery-on-the-cultural-politics-of-fascination-and-fear/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6756
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPacific Centre for Technology and Cultureen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCritical Digital Studies Workshopsen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectdigital magic
dc.subjectcybernetic sorcery
dc.subjectfear
dc.subjectcultural politics
dc.subjectcybernetic social control
dc.subjectultramodern
dc.subjectPacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC)
dc.titleDigital Magic, Cybernetic Sorcery: On the Cultural Politics of Fascination and Fearen_US
dc.typeVideoen_US

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