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Parallax
Order online through Craftsman House "Darren
Tofts can wonder, explain and argue with the best prophets and critics
of cyberculture, but better than most he gives us a vivid idea with his
writing. These sparkling, erudite essays move with an equal degree of
delight and good sense between art, literature, philosophy and new media,
past and present. Tofts is an excellent tonic against hype and hypochondria
in talk about virtual futures; thoughtful and optimistic, his essays have
the inventive force of first-rate cultural criticism." Parallax is a collection of ten essays by the Australian writer Darren Tofts (author, with artist Murray McKeich, of Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture). The essays brought together in Parallax explore the complexity of cultural production of the late twentieth century, a diverse, swirling interplay of traditional artforms, multimedia, cyberspace, and an overall preoccupation with the coming together of humans and machines: a fascinating nexus of art, culture and technology. Essays include: Machine Metaphysics; Hyperlogic, the Avant-garde and Other Intransitive Acts; Your Place or Mine? Locating Digital Art; Un Autre Coup de Dés. Multimedia and the Game Paradigm; Travelling to Iconica: The Virtual Worlds of Troy Innocent; Parallactic Readings: Joyce, Duchamp and the Fourth Dimension; Ulysses Returns; Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon and the Ferocious Dilemma of Expression; 'Unseizable Enigma': Notes Towards a New Morphology of the Image; The Passion of Andres Serrano. March, 2000 / 120 pp / Paper / 90-5704-007-7 19 black & white illustrations / 8" x 6" (210 x 145 mm)
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