Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art

Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art

By Virginia Heffernan

A digital-culture expert who writes for The New York Times Magazine discusses the logic, aesthetics, cultural potential and societal impact of the Internet, a medium that favors speed, accuracy, wit, prolificacy and versatility."

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publish Date: 06/07/2016
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781439191705
ISBN-10: 1439191700
Language: English

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June 08, 2016

The Internet as Art

By Virginia Heffernan

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Virginia Heffernan "melds the personal with the increasingly universal in a highly informative analysis of what the Internet is--and can be. A thoroughly engrossing examination of the Internet's past, present, and future" (Kirkus Reviews, starred r

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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).

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