Life on the Screen - Contents

# Life on the Screen:
Identity in the Age of the Internet

Contents

I. The Seductions of the Interface

1. A Tale of Two Aesthetics
2. The Triumph of Tinkering

II. Of Dreams and Beasts

3. Making a Pass at a Robot
4. Taking Things at Interface Value
5. The Quality of Emergence
6. Artificial Life as the New Frontier

III. On the Internet

7. Aspects of the Self
8. TinySex and Gender Trouble
9. Virtuality and its Discontents
10. Identity Crisis

A Note on Method
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index

Life and the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet will be released by Simon and Schuster in November 1995.

U.S. $25.00
Canada $34.00

ISBN 0-684-80353-4

This book may be ordered on-line from the following sources:
Amazon.com Books in Seattle, Washington
MIT Press Bookstore,Cambridge, MA
Quantum Books ,Cambridge, MA
Wordsworth Discount Books, Cambridge, MA

N.B. This book may be listed by an older title: Beyond Dreams and Beasts
Sorry for the confusion!

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