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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458151503321

Titolo

Technoculture [[electronic resource] /] / Constance Penley and Andrew Ross, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1991

ISBN

0-8166-8371-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Collana

Cultural politics ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

PenleyConstance <1948->

RossAndrew

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Technology - Social aspects

Communication and culture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Cyborgs at Large: Interview with Donna Haraway; The Actors Are Cyborg, Nature Is Coyote, and the Geography Is Elsewhere: Postscript to ""Cyborgs at Large""; Containing Women: Reproductive Discourse in the 1980's; How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: The Evolution of AIDS Treatment Activism; Hacking Away at the Counterculture; Brownian Motion: Women, Tactics, and Technology; ""Penguin in Bondage"": A Graphic Tale of Japanese Comic Books; Hybridity, the Rap Race, and Pedagogy for the 1990's

Watch Out, Dick Tracy! Popular Video in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Just the Facts, Ma'am: An Autobiography; Understanding Mega-Events: If We Are the World, Then How Do We Change It?; Black Box S-Thetix: Labor, Research, and Survival in the He[Art] of the Beast; The Lessons of Cyberpunk; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The contributors provide a realistic assessment of the politics-the dangers and possibilities-currently at stake in cultural practices touched by advanced technology, while suggesting new and timely possibilities for those concerned with the pressing need for technoliteracy.