The Skin of Culture : Investigating the New Electronic Reality

This is a bold vision of the electronic media and the nature of reality in a world increasingly wired to technology. It proposes and explores concepts such as: whether democracy is outmoded and must be redesigned to reflect how technology affects power structures; whether the electronic media have extended our psychology as well as our nervous systems and our bodies; whether art must redress the balance with science and reclaim technology; and whether electronic media are reversing the effects of language, literacy and the alphabet, and whether this is a good thing. This bold vision of the electronic media and the nature of reality in a world wired to technology proposes and explores how this new technology has affected modern culture, from democracy and art, to language and literacy.