Article: Richard Coyne. Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and the Romance of the Real.

Richard Coyne. Technoromanticism: Digital Narrative, Holism, and the Romance of the Real.

Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 1999. ii + 398 pp. $19.95.

THIS AMBITIOUS OVERVIEW of current speculation about the philosophical background and cognitive implications of information technology (IT) is a densely argued and illustrated text that, in the words of Francis Bacon, is to be "chewed and digested." Professor Coyne's specific training is in architectural computer design (he is Professor of Architectural Computing and Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh), but his particular field of applied expertise composes a ...

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