Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk

Cultures of Technological Embodiment

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

Av Mike Featherstone, Roger Burrows

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How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world?

This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human body. It shows how changing relations between body and technology offer new arenas for cultural representations. At the same time, the contributors examine the realities of human embodiment and the limits of virtual worlds. Topics examined include: technological body modifications, replacements and prosthetics; bodies in cyberspace, virtual environments and cyborg culture; cultural representations of technological embodiment in visual and literary productions; and cyberpunk science fiction as a pre-figurative social and cultural theory.

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Utgivningsdatum1996-01-29
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt450 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePublished in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Antal sidor288
Upplaga1
FörlagSAGE Publications
ISBN9780761950851

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Mike Featherstone is Professor of Communications and Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA : Zygmunt Bauman University of Leeds Henning Bech University of Copenhagen Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim Universtiy of Erlangen Mary Evans University of Kent at Canterbury David Frisby University of Glasgow Mike Hepworth University of Aberdeen Eva Illouz Tel-Aviv University Maria Esther Maciel Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Michael Richardson SOAS, University of London Laura Rival University of Kent at Canterbury Andrew Travers Somerset Jeffrey Weeks South Bank University Sasha Weitman Tel-Aviv University Sam Whimster London Guildhall University Elizabeth Wilson University of North London Cas Wouters University of Utrecht

Cultures of Technological Embodiment - Mike Featherstone and Roger BurrowsAn IntroductionFeedback and Cybernetics - David TomasReimaging the Body in the Age of CyberneticsThe Future Looms - Sadie PlantWeaving Women and CyberneticsThe Design of Virtual Reality - Michael HeimPostmodern Virtualities - Mark PosterThe Embodied Computer/User - Deborah LuptonRear-View Mirrorshades - Nigel ClarkThe Recursive Generation of the CyberbodyCyberspace and the World We Live in - Kevin RobbinsDescartes Goes to Hollywood - Samantha HollandMind, Body and Gender in Contemporary Cyborg CinemaProsthetic Memory - Alison LandsbergTotal Recall and Blade RunnerMeat (or How to Kill Oedipus in Cyberspace) - Nick LandBeating the Meat/Surviving the Text, or How to Get Out of This Century Alive - Vivian SobchackForms of Technological Embodiment - Anne BalsamoReading the Body in Contemporary CultureCyber(body)parts - Robert Rawdon WilsonProsthetic ConsciousnessCorpses, Animals, Machines and Mannequins - Kevin McCarronThe Body and Cyberpunk

`[The] introduction gives a clear digest of the field and its problematics... Among contributors are the stars of the digital academy - Sadie Plant, Michael Heim, Mark Poster, Kevin Robins, Vivian Sobchack and Anne Balsamo... much of the content is new and alert to the growing literature in the field.... among the better contributions to the publishing boom of the last two years... very useful in undergraduate teaching′ - Sociology