03379nam 2200709 a 450 991045191380332120200520144314.00-585-34077-31-84860-914-00-7619-5084-21-283-88109-8(CKB)2550000000103902(EBL)1024070(OCoLC)823384428(SSID)ssj0000134301(PQKBManifestationID)11146343(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000134301(PQKBWorkID)10053802(PQKB)11317769(MiAaPQ)EBC1024070(OCoLC)1007860237(StDuBDS)EDZ0000063927(Au-PeEL)EBL1024070(CaPaEBR)ebr10567157(CaONFJC)MIL419359(EXLCZ)99255000000010390220120326d1995 fy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCyperspace/cyberbodies/cyberpunk[electronic resource] cultures of technological embodiment /edited by Mike Featherstone and Roger BurrowsLondon SAGE19951 online resource (287 p.)Theory, culture & societyDescription based upon print version of record.1-4462-5019-9 0-7619-5085-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 CinemaChapter 10 - Prosthetic Memory: Total Recal and Blade RunnerChapter 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; IndexThis 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.Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)CyberneticsSocial aspectsHuman bodySocial aspectsInformation societyVirtual realityElectronic books.CyberneticsSocial aspects.Human bodySocial aspects.Information society.Virtual reality.303.4833Featherstone Mike143807Burrows Roger1962-144591StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910451913803321Cyperspace2473980UNINA