INTELLIGENT AGENCY.
We are facing a new technological assemblage, networks of communication and information technology which mediate our lives in new ways. Within the discourses surrounding these new networks, amidst promises of unlimited agency, power and control, sits the key figure of the intelligent agent. An intel...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 410 - 429 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul98
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