This book examines our understanding of technology and suggests that machines are counterfeit organisms that seem to replace human bodies but are ultimately mea

What gives the mass media, particularly advertising and television, their extraordinary power over our lives, so that even the most jaded and sophisticated amon

Stivers argues that our expectations of technology in society have led to the generation of a multitude of imitation technologies that function as magical pract

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.