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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779301403321

Titolo

Cyperspace/cyberbodies/cyberpunk : cultures of technological embodiment / / edited by Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 1995

ISBN

0-585-34077-3

1-84860-914-0

0-7619-5084-2

1-283-88109-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 pages)

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Altri autori (Persone)

FeatherstoneMike

BurrowsRoger <1962->

Disciplina

303.4833

Soggetti

Human body - Social aspects

Cybernetics - Social aspects

Virtual reality

Information society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Chapter 1 - Cultures of Technological Embodiment: An Introduction; Chapter 2 - Feedback and Cybernetics: Reimaging the Body in the Age of Cybernetics; Chapter 3 - The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics; Chapter 4 - The Design of Virtual Reality; Chapter 5 - Postmodern Virtualities; Chapter 6 - The Embodied Computer/User; Chapter 7 - Rear-View Mirrorshades: The Recursive Generation of the Cyberbody; Chapter 8 - Cyberspace and the World We Live in; Chapter 9 - Descartes Goes to Hollywood: Mind, Body and Gender in Contemporary Cyborg Cinema

Chapter 10 - Prosthetic Memory: Total Recal and Blade Runner; Chapter 11 - Meat (or How to Kill Oedipus in Cyberspace); Chapter 12 - Beating the Meat/Surviving the Text, or How to Get Out of This Century Alive; Chapter 13 - Forms of Technological Embodiment: Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture; Chapter 14 - Cyber(Body)Parts: Prosthetic Consciousness; Chapter 15 - Corpses, Animals, Machines and Mannequins: The Body and Cyberpunk; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates the realities of human embodiment and the limits of virtual worlds, and covers many topics. It will be of interest to academics and students in cultural studies, popular culture, communication, sociology of culture, and philosophy.