Magic And Loss
Author: VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
ISBN: 978-1501132674
Price: Rs. 399.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
Virginia Heffernan ¦melds the personal with the increasingly universal in a highly informative analysis of what the Internet isand can be. A thoroughly engrossing examination of the Internets past, present and future (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from one of the best living writers of English prose.This book makes a bold claim: The Internet is among mankinds great masterpiecesa massive work of art. As an idea, it rivals monotheism. But its cultural potential and its societal impact often elude us. In this deep and thoughtful book, Virginia Heffernan reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet, just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television.Life online, in the highly visual, social, portable and global incarnation rewards certain virtues. The new medium favors speed, accuracy, wit, prolificacy and versatility and its form and functions are changing how we perceive, experience and understand the world. In ¦sumptuous writing, saturated with observations that are simultaneously personal, cultural and strikingly original (The New Republic), Heffernan presents ¦ revealing look at how the Internet continues to reshape our lives emotionally, visually and culturally (The Smithsonian Magazine). ¦Magic and Loss is an illuminating guide to the Internet...it is impossible to come away from this book without sharing some of Heffernans awe for this brave new world (The Wall Street Journal).
Browse this title within our Social Sciences and Education collection. Edition details: Paperback, English, 272 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-1501132674.
About the Author
Virginia Heffernan writes regularly about digital culture for The New York Times Magazine. In 2005, Heffernan (with cowriter Mike Albo) published the cult comic novel The Underminer (Bloomsbury). In 2002, she received her PhD in English Literature from Harvard.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- Students & Academic Researchers
- Language & Format
- English • Paperback
- ISBN Reference
- 978-1501132674
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
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What is this book about?
Virginia Heffernan ¦melds the personal with the increasingly universal in a highly informative analysis of what the Internet isand can be. A thoroughly engrossing examination of the Internets past, present and future (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from one of the best living writers of English...
Who should read this book?
Valuable for university students, educators, and scholars seeking authoritative reference material and structured subject mastery.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this book if you’ve ever felt both dazzled and uneasy online. Virginia Heffernan treats the Internet not just as technology, but as one of humanity’s great cultural creations. With elegant, accessible prose, she helps you see how life online reshapes attention, creativity, power, and meaning. It’s intellectually satisfying without being heavy, making you feel smarter, more aware, and more in control of the digital world you live in every day.
- Published by Simon & Schuster.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 272.
Catalog Description
Virginia Heffernan ¦melds the personal with the increasingly universal in a highly informative analysis of what the Internet isand can be. A thoroughly engrossing examination of the Internets past, present and future (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from one of the best living writers of English prose.This book makes a bold claim: The Internet is among mankinds great masterpiecesa massive work of art. As an idea, it rivals monotheism. But its cultural potential and its societal impact often elude us. In this deep and thoughtful book, Virginia Heffernan reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet, just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television.Life...
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