Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk

TRAMA

How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world?</p> <p></p> <p>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.</p> <p></p> <p>Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/ Cyberpunk was simultaneously published as Volume 1 Issue 3/4 of Body & Society.

SOMMARIO

Cultures of Technological Embodiment - Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows An IntroductionFeedback and Cybernetics - David Tomas Reimaging the Body in the Age of CyberneticsThe Future Looms - Sadie Plant Weaving Women and CyberneticsThe Design of Virtual Reality - Michael HeimPostmodern Virtualities - Mark PosterThe Embodied Computer/User - Deborah LuptonRear-View Mirrorshades - Nigel Clark The Recursive Generation of the CyberbodyCyberspace and the World We Live in - Kevin RobbinsDescartes Goes to Hollywood - Samantha Holland Mind, Body and Gender in Contemporary Cyborg CinemaProsthetic Memory - Alison Landsberg /f003Total Recall/f001 and /f003Blade 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 Balsamo Reading the Body in Contemporary CultureCyber(body)parts - Robert Rawdon Wilson Prosthetic ConsciousnessCorpses, Animals, Machines and Mannequins - Kevin McCarron The Body and Cyberpunk

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780761950851
• Collana: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Dimensioni: 9.2100 x 6.1400 in
• Formato: Paperback / softback
• Pagine Arabe: 288