Electric animals.
The literature on everyday life has only imperfectly taken to itself the influence of modern information and communications technology, generally through the work of authors like Benjamin and the lettristes like de Certeau and Virilio. Part of the reason for this relative absence seems to be a conce...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 18; no. 2/3; pp. 461 - 483 |
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Mar/May2004
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