肯尼思·戈德史密斯（Kenneth Goldsmith）美国概念艺术家、诗人、网站编辑、网络电台主持，曾被纽约现代艺术博物馆（MoMA）授予“桂冠诗人”称号。他在宾夕法尼亚大学任教期间，推出了一个名为“在网上浪费时间”的课程，引起美国媒体的轰动。曾编著《我将是你的镜子：安迪·沃霍尔访谈精选》等书，目前与同为艺术家的妻子及两个儿子生活在纽约。

我们平时上网多大程度上是浪费时间，多大程度是在学习、关心社会、激发创造力？我们真能彻底断网，逃离社交网络吗？ 手机把都市人变成一群电子僵尸，是福是祸？ 浏览记录就是我们将来的回忆录吗？文件归档属于一种现代民间艺术？ 不自拍、P图、发朋友圈，我还是我吗？ 美国知名概念艺术家戈德史密斯认为：上网绝不是浪费时间，而是一种创造性的活动。在本书中他以跨学科角度、散文式语言进行论证，涉及大众传播学、计算机、心理学，以及电影、现代艺术和文学诗歌等领域。

我们平时上网多大程度上是浪费时间，多大程度是在学习、关心社会、激发创造力？我们真能彻底断网，逃离社交网络吗？ 手机把都市人变成一群电子僵尸，是福是祸？ 浏览记录就是我们将来的回忆录吗？文件归档属于一种现代民间艺术？ 不自拍、P图、发朋友圈，我还是我吗？ 美国知名概念艺术家戈德史密斯认为：上网绝不是浪费时间，而是一种创造性的活动。在本书中他以跨学科角度、散文式语言进行论证，涉及大众传播学、计算机、心理学，以及电影、现代艺术和文学诗歌等领域。

This work is a clear discussion of the promises of the Internet. Can it really bring humanity to a new level of community and democracy and solve the problems of mass education? Hubert Dreyfus, a writer on philosophy and technology, brings a philosopher's eye to bear on an issue that affects us all. Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers including Descartes and Kierkegaard, Dre...(展开全部)

Can the internet solve the problem of mass education, and bring human beings to a new level of community? Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers from Plato to Kierkegaard, "On the Internet" agues that there is much in common between the disembodied, free floating web and Descartes' separation of mind and body. Dreyfus also shows how Kierkegaard's insights into the origins of a ...(展开全部)

Manuel Castells is one of the world's leading thinkers on the new information age, hailed by The Economist as "the first significant philosopher of cyberspace," and by Christian Science Monitor as "a pioneer who has hacked out a logical, well-documented, and coherent picture of early 21st century civilization, even as it rockets forward largely in a blur." Now, in The Internet...(展开全部)

Computers have changed not just the way we work but the way we love. Falling in and out of love, flirting, cheating, even having sex online have all become part of the modern way of living and loving. Yet we know very little about these new types of relationship. How is an online affair where the two people involved may never see or meet each other different from an affair in t...(展开全部)

In this major study, now available in paperback, Lyotard develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity, and examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and the arts to bear witness to and explain the links between modernity, progress and humanity, and the difficult transition to postmode...(展开全部)

In this major study, now available in paperback, Lyotard develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity, and examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and the arts to bear witness to and explain the links between modernity, progress and humanity, and the difficult transition to postmode...(展开全部)

Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its lessons for today....