The Matrix in theory [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Myriam Diocaretz and Stefan Herbrechter

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopt, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Science fiction films - Themes, motives
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Díaz-DiocaretzMyriam HerbrechterStefan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / MYRIAM DIOCARETZ and STEFAN HERBRECHTER -- INTRODUCTION THEORY IN THE MATRIX / STEFAN HERBRECHTER -- “SO TONIGHT I’M GONNA PARTY LIKE IT’S 1999” LOOKING FORWARD TO THE MATRIX / JON STRATTON -- REVOLUTION IN THE MATRIX: A CUE CALL FOR REFLEXIVE SOCIOLOGY / KIMBERLY BARTON -- ENTER THE MATRIX – INTERACTIVITY AND THE LOGIC OF DIGITAL CAPITALISM / CHRISTIAN KRUG and JOACHIM FRENK -- PHILOSOPHY AND THE MATRIX / CHRIS FALZON -- SIMULACRA, SIMULATION AND THE MATRIX / SVEN LUTZKA -- IS THERE AN EXIT FROM “VIRTUAL REALITY?” GRID AND NETWORK – FROM TRON TO THE MATRIX / ELIE DURING -- TECHNOFANTASIES AND EMBODIMENT / DON IHDE -- QUEERING THE MATRIX: HACKING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE AND SLASHING INTO THE FUTURE / AIMEE BAHNG -- SEXING THE MATRIX: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN/AS CYBERFICTION / RAINER EMIG -- MATRIX – THE NEW CONSTITUTION BETWEEN HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND WETWARE / DENISA KERA -- THE MATRIX TRILOGY AND THE TRIUMPH OF VIRTUAL REASON – TERRITORIALIZED TOPOI, NOMADIC LINES / SALAH EL MONCEF BIN KHALIFA -- THE POSTHUMAN SUBJECT IN THE MATRIX / STEFAN HERBRECHTER -- “NEW THEORY?” THE POSTHUMANIST ACADEMY AND THE BEGUILEMENTS OF THE MATRIX TRILOGY / IVAN CALLUS -- CONTRIBUTORS / MYRIAM DIOCARETZ and STEFAN HERBRECHTER.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Matrix trilogy continues to split opinions widely, polarising the downright dismissive and the wildly enthusiastic. Nevertheless, it has been fully embraced as a rich source of theoretical and cultural references. The contributions in this volume probe the effects the Matrix trilogy continues to provoke and evaluate how or to what extent they coincide with certain developments within critical and cultural theory. Is the enthusiastic philosophising and theorising spurred by the Matrix a sign of the desperate state theory is in, in the sense of “see how low theory (or ‘post-theory’) has sunk”? Or could the Matrix be one of the “master texts” for something like a renewal for theory as now being mainly concerned with new and changing relations between science, technology, posthumanist culture, art, politics, ethics and the media? The present volume is unashamedly but not dogmatically theoretical even though there is not much agreement about what kind of theory is best suited to confront “post-theoretical” times. But it is probably fair to say that there is agreement about one thing, namely that if theory appears to be “like” the Matrix today it does so because the culture around it and which “made” it itself seems to be captured in some kind of Matrix. The only way out of this is through more and renewed, refreshed theorising, not less.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Matrix in theory
• ISBN: 94-012-0129-3; 1-4237-9150-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451487403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; ; v. 29.