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The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace A History of Space from Dante to the Internet

by [Wertheim, Margaret]

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But as science commentator Margaret Wertheim argues in this "marvelously provocative" (Kirkus Reviews) book, cyberspace has in recent years become a repository for immense spiritual yearning. Wertheim explores the mapping of spiritual desire onto digitized space and suggests that the modem today has become a metaphysical escape-hatch from a materialism that many people find increasingly dissatisfying. Cyberspace opens up a collective space beyond the laws of physics-a space where mind rather than matter reigns. This strange refuge returns us to an almost medieval dualism between a physical space of body and an immaterial space of mind and psyche.

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  • W. W. Norton & Compan Brand
  • May 1, 2000 Pub Date:
  • 9780393320534 ISBN-13:
  • 0393320537 ISBN-10:
  • 336.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 8.3 in * 0.9 in * 5.6 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: