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Availability:

• It is with pleasure that we will list on this page any library that requests it (duguay.benoit@uqam.ca).

Canada

• In Ontario, the book is on sale at Librairie Champlain, located at 468 Queen Street East in Toronto, +1 (416) 364-4345.
• Distributed in Canada by Diffusion Dimedia, product code 23770196.

France

• The book will be available in December 2009 or January 2010 in the Paris region at Librairie du Québec, 30 rue Gay Lussac à Paris, +33 (0)1 43 54 49 02, and and throughout France on Amazon.fr.
• Large scale distribution in bookstores, FNAC amongst others, will take place in Spring 2010.
• Distributed in France, Belgium and Switzerland by Distribution du Nouveau Monde (DNM) +33 (0)1 43 54 49 02.

Overview:

«New technologies now hold a central place in our societies. Computers, standalone or integrated in all kinds of machinery and equipment (including our own bodies), the Internet, mobile phones, music players, etc., keep us busy when we manufacture and use them, not accounting for the fact that they are often the focus of our conversations. They are no longer simply creatures of technology and goods available on the market, but also part of our culture and of our imagination. These technologies have transformed the economy and the rapport to work, and reconfigured our relationships, which are alternately and simultaneously virtual, global, instantaneous, ephemeral, superficial, and so on. Some of these changes are for better — emancipation from thankless tasks, increased circulation of information and knowledge, support of democratic practices —, others for worse — growing technological divide, individualism and selfishness, dependence, feverish consumption.

This book is not merely an historical record of different technologies. It aims to outline the benefits of technology as much as the abuses it can lead to, to demonstrate its close relationships with consumption and to explain why hyperconsumption and hypertechnicization of our world go hand in hand. » (B. D.)

isbn : 978-2-89578-196-7
éditions LIBER

 

Media coverage:

• Interview with Brigitte Trudel, editor of RND magazine. A book review will be presented in the March - April 2010 issue.
• Interview with journalist Pierre-Étienne Caza for the publishing of the «Au monde de l'hyper» article in L'UQAM newspaper, volume XXXVI, number 7, November 30th 2009.
• Interview with Michel Gailloux host of the C'est la vie! show broadcasted on Radio Ville-Marie (91,3 FM in Montreal) Tuesday December 1 2009.
• Suggested reading, Magazine Équilibre, Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 2009, p. 6.