{"id":38,"date":"2003-06-23T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2003-06-23T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=38"},"modified":"2003-06-23T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2003-06-23T18:49:21","slug":"poster-and-the-matter-with-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Poster and the Matter with the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mark Poster - University of California, Irvine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanities.uci.edu\/mposter\/\">Mark Poster &#8211; University of California, Irvine<\/a> has a book out on _What&#8217;s the Matter with the Internet_.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe title is nicely ambiguous &#8211; it could mean it is a response to Internet critics &#8211; as in &#8220;What&#8217;s the matter with the Net?&#8221; Or it could be about the material of the Internet as in Form and Matter.<\/p>\n<p>He makes a great start &#8211; writes about the &#8220;undetermined&#8221; nature of the Internet. He talks about the space\/time of the Net. He has a chapter on the being of technology that has an interesting critique of Heidegger&#8217;s essay. He is trying to find a place between the instrumentalists for whom the net is just a tool and the critics for whom it is an evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Poster &#8211; University of California, Irvine has a book out on _What&#8217;s the Matter with the Internet_.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}