Cyberbole.
The writer discusses Jaron Lanier's One Half of a Manifesto, which is not dedicated to proclaiming a new theory, as most manifestos are, but to deflating the already fully-formed theory of cybernetic totalism. This theory, developed by an elite group of techies, is one of those grandiose ideologies...
| Published in: | American Prospect Vol. 12; no. 5; pp. 54 - 57 |
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American Prospect
March 12-26 2001
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