- Paperback: 568 pages
- Publisher: Zone; New edition edition (Sep 1 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0942299361
- ISBN-13: 978-0942299366
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 907 g
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #328,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Considering how many tricky ethical and legal questions there are with various electronic reproductions, The Culture of the Copy is a timely book. Our fascination with copies, replicas, and reproduction is explored in this unusual and engaging historical and cultural survey. While it isn't solely about electronic copies, the historical review of the technology of reproduction sets our current debates over copyright and intellectual property in the digital age in perspective. In fact, Schwartz suggests that the ethical dilemmas in many fields have become inseparable from our pursuit of copies.
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"If God is in the details, then this book is surely divine or, atleast, demonic. Siamese twins and doppelgängers, parrots andapes, decoys and mannequins, robots and clones, impostors andpretenders are but a few of the stops on this dizzying and dazzlingtour de force of every conceivable trompe l'oeil." Francis Kane , New York Times Book Review
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1.0 out of 5 stars
thinking-lite,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles (Paperback)
A travesty. Schwartz, in this book, does nothing but reformulate older theories and water them down in a text that should be titled "The Idiot's Guide to the Copy."Although passing himself off as a scholar, Schwartz has never been able to receive tenure at any college or university. Simplisitic accounts of what could otherwise be a fascinating philosophical study do little to further his reputation.
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3.3 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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And?... Your point is?,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles (Hardcover)
This is an excellent book that could have been much much more. Our current ability to create a world of likenesses and copies has changed the way we look at the world. And this well written work discusses just how many issues, from twins, to copied documents, to ethnolographic film, are informed by our search for the "real" in a world of "copies." Yet this work never becomes anything more than a well written, entertaining series of well-selected anecdotes. The philosophical issues, the absurdity of any idea of "identity" or metaphysical "difference," in a world in which identities are fabricated, is never touched upon. This work could have been a philosophical tome, changing the way I thought; unfortunately it only made me chuckle at how people have been confused by twins
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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You won't find a better book than this.,
By J. B. Royster "english patient" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles (Paperback)
This book covers so many varieties of imitation types that you can't go wrong in reading it. It is particularly useful if you are interested in the imitation aspect involved in some subject, such as camouflage or doppelgangers, that won't have this idea covered well enough under its own title. The book is a cultural/ historical chronicle with enough research done by the author to make it stand out on the shelves.
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thinking-lite,
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This review is from: The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles (Paperback)
A travesty. Schwartz, in this book, does nothing but reformulate older theories and water them down in a text that should be titled "The Idiot's Guide to the Copy."Although passing himself off as a scholar, Schwartz has never been able to receive tenure at any college or university. Simplisitic accounts of what could otherwise be a fascinating philosophical study do little to further his reputation. |
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