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Virtual America: Sleepwalking through Paradise by John Opie (English) Paperback
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- Objectstaat
- ISBN-13
- 9780803232785
- Book Title
- Virtual America
- ISBN
- 9780803232785
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Nature, Computers, History, Social Science, Philosophy
- Topic
- Social Aspects, Human Geography, Sociology / General, General, Ecology, Virtual Worlds, United States / General
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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Virtual America traces the complex relationship between Americans, technology, and their environment as it has unfolded over the past several centuries. Throughout history Americans have constructed mental pictures of unique places, such as the American West, that have taken on more authority than the actual gritty landscapes. This disconnect from reality is magnified by the new world of virtual realities on the computer screen, where personal immersion in interactive simulations becomes the "default" environment. Virtual America identifies the connections (or lack thereof) between our individual selves, an American identity, and the geography "out there." John Opie examines what he calls First Nature (the natural world), Second Nature (metropolitan infrastructure/built environment), and Third Nature (virtual reality in cyberspace). He also explores how Americans have historically dreamed about a better life in daily, ordinary existence and then fulfilled it through the Engineered America of our built environment, the Consumer America of material well-being, and the Triumphal America of our conviction that we are the world's exceptional model. But these dream worlds have also encouraged placelessness and thus indifference to our dwelling in home ground. Finally, Opie explores Last Nature (a sense of place) and argues that when we identify an authentic place, we can locate authenticity of self-a reification of place and self-by their connectedness. John Opie is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental History and Policy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the founding editor of the journal Environmental History and the author of Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States and Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land, available in a Bison Books edition. Opie currently lives on the Indiana Dunes of Lake Michigan and teaches at the University of Chicago.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803232780
ISBN-13
9780803232785
eBay Product ID (ePID)
79285378
Product Key Features
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social Aspects, Human Geography, Sociology / General, General, Ecology, Virtual Worlds, United States / General
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature, Computers, History, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E169.1.O65 2010
Reviews
"Opie''s book will help us maintain genuine connectivity in the cyber era."-Brian Black, Technology and Culture, "This is the book for any intelligent, concerned, sensitive person who might be given to weeping over the screech of a chain saw when a neighbor fells a tree or depression as developers extend yet another strip mall into the countryside. It has the power to change one''s life."-P. D. Travis, Choice Magazine, "In persuasively linking the modern digital technologies of imagined reality to their historical antecedents, Opie has produced an important book and a new framework for understanding the story, one that is all the more relevant the more virtual our reality becomes."�Gregory Summers, Annals of Iowa, "This is the book for any intelligent, concerned, sensitive person who might be given to weeping over the screech of a chain saw when a neighbor fells a tree or depression as developers extend yet another strip mall into the countryside. It has the power to change one's life."-P. D. Travis, Choice Magazine, "In persuasively linking the modern digital technologies of imagined reality to their historical antecedents, Opie has produced an important book and a new framework for understanding the story, one that is all the more relevant the more virtual our reality becomes."-Gregory Summers, Annals of Iowa, "This book can usefully guide students to think about how Americans have continually reconstructed their sense of place as they searched for an often problematic authenticity." -David E. Nye, American Studies Journal, "Opie's book will help us maintain genuine connectivity in the cyber era."-Brian Black, Technology and Culture, "This is the book for any intelligent, concerned, sensitive person who might be given to weeping over the screech of a chain saw when a neighbor fells a tree or depression as developers extend yet another strip mall into the countryside. It has the power to change one''s life."�P. D. Travis, Choice Magazine
Publication Name
Virtual America : Sleepwalking Through Paradise
Table of Content
Introduction 1. Welcome to VirtuaLand: Old Dreamworlds and the Power of a New Modernity 2. Antique America: Searching for Authenticity 3. Human Kodaks in the Future Perfect: Virtual America Embodied in World's Fairs 4. Sleepwalking in America: A Brief History 5. Finding Authenticity: Inhabiting Place in America Bibliography
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lccn
2008-000752
Dewey Decimal
973
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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