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Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination (MIT Press) new edition Edition

by Rosalind Williams (Author)
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Product Details

  • Series: MIT Press
  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: The MIT Press; new edition edition (April 11, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0262731908
  • ISBN-13: 978-0262731904
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent book - highly recommended
By Gary Burt on May 14, 2008
Format: Paperback
I tried to find a simple and concise description of what the book is about, but I cannot better Rosalind Williams own description at the start of Chapter One. "What are the consequences when human beings dwell in an environment that is predominantly built rather than given? This book seeks to answer that question. It explores the psychological, social and political implications of living in a technological world".

Rosalind Williams has delivered an insightful and extremely readable book. This book could easily have been a dry academic text that did little more than bring together a huge set of disconnected references from the last 150+ years. Instead of this, the author has contructed an engaging narrative that does justice to the extensive research and insightful analysis which flows through the book.

A must for anyone interested in technology and its impact of society and the individual.
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2.0 out of 5 starsDry, academic.
By Generic Man on May 2, 2013
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Again, victim of boingboing's book reviews. Stale, somewhat scholarly work about the concept of the underground and how it existed in man's mind before he fully discovered it. Need source material: here it is.
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1.0 out of 5 starsNot at all what I thought it was.
By Ethan J. Ensign on September 2, 2008
Format: Paperback
I was really excited after I read a review on boingboing.net. When it arrived I found out that the author thought that Notes on the Underground was an essay on her collections of early proto-science and science fiction/fantasy novels and books. I got a similar experience with pictures of book covers from reading the Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction. I found her writing to be dry and far too interested in quoting from 19th cent. texts - something that could be easily done by using google-text. After all there are numerous modern essays on real artificial environments, and even examples: ISS, aircraft carriers, etc...
Why not call the book - notes on books that mention the "underground" which were collected by querying googletext. I expected more from an MIT professor.
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