Moral tales and meditations

By Michael Joyce

Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects of Technology and civilization, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of Mass media, Fiction, Mass media, American Didactic fiction, Technology and civilization, Parables, Fiction, short stories (single author)

Description: "Novelist, cyber-theorist, and widely acclaimed hypertext ficton writer Michael Joyce weaves an evocative and provocative set of brief essays and short parable-like fictions into a compelling collection of meditations on how technology and new media affect our culture and everyday lives. Taken together, these pieces present a writer's reflections on a life of sudden changes at the edge of an uncertain future. They continue Joyce's effort to construct what in previous collections he has called "theoretical narratives." Here, however, Joyce turns from reflections to what he terms "refractions," alluding to the turning or bending a wave undergoes when it passes from one medium into another of different density. Through these refractions, he formulates an understanding of the wave of change we face as human beings in a multimediated age."--BOOK JACKET.