03365nam 2200709 a 450 991077930140332120230928230500.00-585-34077-31-84860-914-00-7619-5084-21-283-88109-8(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(OCoLC)797836246(FINmELB)ELB137166(EXLCZ)99255000000010390220120326d1995 fy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCyperspace/cyberbodies/cyberpunk cultures of technological embodiment /edited by Mike Featherstone and Roger BurrowsLondon SAGE19951 online resource (280 pages)Theory, culture & society1-4462-5019-9 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 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; 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)Human bodySocial aspectsCyberneticsSocial aspectsVirtual realityInformation societyHuman bodySocial aspects.CyberneticsSocial aspects.Virtual reality.Information society.303.4833Featherstone Mike143807Burrows Roger1962-144591StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910779301403321Cyperspace3708406UNINA