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Magic and Loss

The Internet as Art

By: Virginia Heffernan

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Paperback | 27 June 2017

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274 Pages

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21.29 x 13.97 x 1.73

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This book makes a bold claim: The Internet is among mankind’s great masterpieces a massive work of art. As an idea, it rivals monotheism. But its cultural potential and its societal impact often elude us. In this deep and thoughtful book, Virginia Heffernan reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet, just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television.

Life online, in the highly visual, social, portable, and global incarnation rewards certain virtues. The new medium favors speed, accuracy, wit, prolificacy, and versatility, and its form and functions are changing how we perceive, experience, and understand the world.

About the Author

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). In 2002, she received her PhD in English Literature from Harvard.

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"In melding the personal with the increasingly universal, Heffernan delivers 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, Starred Review

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