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Data Trash

Arthur Kroker and Michael A. Weinstein

1994

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Keywords

Media Theory

Virtual Reality

 

 

 

Data Trash counters technotopian ideology with a good dose of techno-pessimism. Leaving subtlety aside, Kroker and Weinstein write:

We are data trash. And it’s good. Data trash crawls out of the burned-out wreckage of the body splattered on the information superhighway, and begins the hard task of putting the pieces of the (electronic) body back together again (Kroker and Weinstein Data Trash 158).