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Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / / Ytasha L. Womack
| Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / / Ytasha L. Womack |
| Autore | Womack Ytasha |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762093529 |
| Soggetto topico |
African Americans - Race identity
African diaspora - Social conditions Futurologists Science fiction films - Influence Science fiction - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-61374-799-3
1-61374-797-7 9781613747964 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Evolution of a space cadet -- A human fairy tale named black -- Project imagination -- Mothership in the key of Mars -- The African cosmos for modern mermaids (mermen) -- Divine feminine in space -- Pen my future -- Moonwalkers in paint and pixels -- A clock for time travelers -- The surreal life -- Agent change -- Future world. |
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| Chicago : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] | ||
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Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / / Ytasha L. Womack
| Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / / Ytasha L. Womack |
| Autore | Womack Ytasha |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762093529 |
| Soggetto topico |
African Americans - Race identity
African diaspora - Social conditions Futurologists Science fiction films - Influence Science fiction - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
1-61374-799-3
1-61374-797-7 9781613747964 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Evolution of a space cadet -- A human fairy tale named black -- Project imagination -- Mothership in the key of Mars -- The African cosmos for modern mermaids (mermen) -- Divine feminine in space -- Pen my future -- Moonwalkers in paint and pixels -- A clock for time travelers -- The surreal life -- Agent change -- Future world. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790512703321 |
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Womack Ytasha
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| Chicago : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / / Ytasha L. Womack
| Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / / Ytasha L. Womack |
| Autore | Womack Ytasha |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762093529 |
| Soggetto topico |
African Americans - Race identity
African diaspora - Social conditions Futurologists Science fiction films - Influence Science fiction - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
9781613747995
1613747993 9781613747971 1613747977 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Evolution of a space cadet -- A human fairy tale named black -- Project imagination -- Mothership in the key of Mars -- The African cosmos for modern mermaids (mermen) -- Divine feminine in space -- Pen my future -- Moonwalkers in paint and pixels -- A clock for time travelers -- The surreal life -- Agent change -- Future world. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910966996903321 |
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Womack Ytasha
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| Chicago : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cyberculture, cyborgs and science fiction [[electronic resource] ] : consciousness and the posthuman / / William S. Haney II
| Cyberculture, cyborgs and science fiction [[electronic resource] ] : consciousness and the posthuman / / William S. Haney II |
| Autore | Haney William S |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/3 |
| Collana | Consciousness, literature & the arts |
| Soggetto topico |
Biotechnology in literature
Biotechnology - Social aspects Consciousness - Social aspects Cyborgs in literature Mind and body Science fiction - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
94-012-0270-2
1-4237-9080-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Consciousness and the Posthuman -- Chapter 2: The Latent Powers of Consciousness vs. Bionic Humans -- Chapter 3: Derrida's Indian Literary Subtext -- Chapter 4: Consciousness and the Posthuman in Short Fiction -- Chapter 5: Frankenstein: The Monster's Constructedness and the Narrativity of Consciousness -- Chapter 6: William Gibson's Neuromancer: Technological Ambiguity -- Chapter 7: Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash: Humans are not Computers -- Chapter 8: Haruki Murakami' s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: Unicorns, Elephants and Immortality -- Chapter 9: Cyborg Revelations: Marge Piercy's He, She and It -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Survival of Human Nature -- Works Cited -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451528403321 |
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Haney William S
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| Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006 | ||
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Cyberculture, cyborgs and science fiction [[electronic resource] ] : consciousness and the posthuman / / William S. Haney II
| Cyberculture, cyborgs and science fiction [[electronic resource] ] : consciousness and the posthuman / / William S. Haney II |
| Autore | Haney William S |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/3 |
| Collana | Consciousness, literature & the arts |
| Soggetto topico |
Biotechnology in literature
Biotechnology - Social aspects Consciousness - Social aspects Cyborgs in literature Mind and body Science fiction - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
94-012-0270-2
1-4237-9080-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Consciousness and the Posthuman -- Chapter 2: The Latent Powers of Consciousness vs. Bionic Humans -- Chapter 3: Derrida's Indian Literary Subtext -- Chapter 4: Consciousness and the Posthuman in Short Fiction -- Chapter 5: Frankenstein: The Monster's Constructedness and the Narrativity of Consciousness -- Chapter 6: William Gibson's Neuromancer: Technological Ambiguity -- Chapter 7: Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash: Humans are not Computers -- Chapter 8: Haruki Murakami' s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: Unicorns, Elephants and Immortality -- Chapter 9: Cyborg Revelations: Marge Piercy's He, She and It -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Survival of Human Nature -- Works Cited -- Index. |
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| Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006 | ||
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Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction : Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism
| Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction : Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism |
| Autore | Shapiro Alan N |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
| Collana | Digitale Gesellschaft Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Popular culture
Science fiction - Social aspects SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies |
| ISBN | 9783839472422 |
| Classificazione | AP 13550 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Three Central Hypotheses -- The Logical Progression of the Three Concepts or Hypotheses -- Part One - Hyper‐Modernism: Digital Media Technologies and Science Fiction -- Part One to Part Two: From Hyper‐Modernism to Hyperreality -- Part Two - Hyperreality: Reevaluation of Jean Baudrillard's Media Theory and the Simulacrum -- Part Two to Part Three: From Hyperreality to Post‐Humanism and Creative Coding -- Part Three - Posthumanism: N. Katherine Hayles' History of Cybernetics, Creative Coding, and the Future of Informatics -- Originally Published Versions -- Methodology -- Thirty Minute Statement at my Ph.D. Oral Defense Alan N. Shapiro, April 12, 2024 -- Part One - Hyper‐Modernism: Digital Media Technologies and Science Fiction -- Overview of Part One -- Short Definitions of Modernity, Postmodernism, and Hyper‐Modernism -- The Three Essays of Part One -- Mobility and Science Fiction -- Introduction -- We Do Not Live in a Society Where Mobility is Encouraged -- The Dream of the Tomorrow‐Car -- Henri Matisse Paints "the Vision Machine" -- The New Vision Machine -- Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Menace of Verticality -- The "Spinner" Flying Cars of Blade Runner: Simulation and Surveillance -- Blade Runner: We Are All Replicants -- Blade Runner 2049: Android Liberation Between Old and New Informatic Power -- Minority Report: The Utopia/Dystopia of Surveillance Technologies -- The Fifth Element: When Manhattan has no More Ways to Expand -- Back to the Future: A Speed So Fast that the Laws of Spacetime Get Shattered -- Total Recall: You're in a Johnny Cab -- Robots Versus Androids -- Self‐Owning Cars -- Enhance the Physical World -- The Simulacra, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Dr. Bloodmoney -- The "Science Fiction World" of Philip K. Dick's Ubik.
Who Is Jory Miller and What is Ubik? -- Fredric Jameson on Postmodernism -- Sonja Yeh on the Postmodern Media Theorists -- Donna J. Haraway's "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" -- Science Fiction Heterotopia: The Economy of the Future -- Introduction: Foucault's Heterotopia -- The Technologizing of Memory -- Black Mirror: "The Entire History of You" - Scenes from a Marriage -- Similar Technologies in the Real World Today -- Brain‐Computer Interface -- Designing the Brain‐Computer Interface -- Hyper‐Modernist Literature -- The Economy of the Future -- Post‐Capitalism and Technological Anarchism -- Star Trek Replicators and Star Trek Economics -- Ecologically Aware or Sustainable 3D Printers -- Additive Manufacturing and Living Organisms -- Andre Gorz: Human Liberation Beyond Work -- Murray Bookchin, Post‐Scarcity Anarchism -- Yanis Varoufakis' Vision of Post‐Capitalism -- Conclusion -- Geert Lovink on Post‐Capitalism -- Blockchain Decentralized Idealism -- Smart Contracts -- Between Law and Code -- Decentralized Autonomous Organization -- Between Corporate Intellectual Property Rights and the Rights of Users -- Fiction and Power in Postmodernism -- Cornelius Castoriadis, The Imaginary Institution of Society -- Donna J. Haraway on the Informatics of Domination -- Michel Foucault's Analytics of Power -- Jean Baudrillard, Forget Foucault -- Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript on the Societies of Control" -- Fiction, Power, and Codes in Hyper‐Modernism -- John Armitage on Hyper‐Modernism -- Albert Borgmann on Hyper‐Modernism -- Gilles Lipovetsky on Hyper‐Modernism -- What is Hyper‐Modernism? -- Introduction -- Access to History -- The Carnivalesque -- Modernity, Postmodernism, Hyper‐Modernism -- Gustave Flaubert: To Write a Novel About Nothing -- Hyper‐Modernist Creativity -- Body, Self, and Code in Hyper‐Modernism -- Sincerity and Authenticity. Darko Suvin on Science Fiction Studies -- Carl Freedman on Science Fiction Studies -- Istvan Ciscsery‐Ronay, Jr. on Science Fiction Studies -- Part Two - Hyperreality: Reevaluation of Jean Baudrillard's Media Theory and the Simulacrum -- Overview of Part Two -- Defining the Simulacrum and Hyperreality -- Thinking Hyperreality: From Rhetoric to Code -- Baudrillard's Importance for the Future -- Baudrillard and the Situationists -- Baudrillard and Trump -- Baudrillard's Importance for the Future -- The Controversy Around Baudrillard -- Yes - Everything is Simulation! -- Early Baudrillard: The Consumer Society and For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign -- Symbolic Exchange and the Gift Economy -- The First Order of Simulacra: The Student of Prague -- The Second Order of Simulacra: The First Industrial Revolution -- The Third Order of Simulacra: Simulation and Hyperreality -- First‐Wave Digitalization as Interactive Performance -- The Fourth Order of Simulacra: Value Radiates in All Directions -- From Descartes to Baudrillard: The "Evil Demon" of Images -- Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God" -- The Trapdoor Escape Hatch Way Out of Hyperreality -- High Life: The Black Hole of Humanity's Extinction and New Hope -- Poetic Resolution in Baudrillard's Thought -- Daniel Boorstin, The Image: Hyperreality Overtakes America -- Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality -- Roland Barthes, Mythologies -- Taking the Side of Objects -- Plato and the Simulacrum -- Plato as Software Designer -- Brian Gogan on Plato, Baudrillard, and Rhetoric -- Deleuze on "Plato and the Simulacrum" -- Upgrading Hyperreality and the Simulacrum for Digitalization -- Personalized Advertising -- Transdisciplinarity is Good for (Post‑)Humanity -- Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and the Metaverse -- Baudrillard and the Situationists -- Introduction. "Taking the Side of Objects" and the Situationists -- Baudrillard's Paradigm Shift -- Is Baudrillard Fair to the Situationists? -- "Baudrillard and the Situationists" Commentators Douglas Kellner and Sadie Plant, and the Tension between Critical Theory and Fatal Theory -- Exhibit A (Baudrillard self‐simplifies): -- Exhibit B (Baudrillard's critique of the Situationists is reductionist): -- Exhibit C (Sadie Plant's critique of Baudrillard is reductionist): -- Situationist Practices -- Wandering or the Drift - Le Dérive -- Psycho‐Geography -- The Diverting of Technologies - Le détournement -- The Making or Creating or Construction of Situations -- The Radical Illusion Beyond Art -- Neo‐Situationism in the Field of Advanced Digital Technologies -- Urban and Street Art Activism -- Augmented Reality versus Wall Street -- Conclusion -- McKenzie Wark on the Situationists -- Play Don't Work -- Existential Encounter with the Object -- From the Subject to the Object in Jean‐Paul Sartre's Nausea -- The Myth of Sisyphus: Albert Camus on the Side of Objects -- Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity -- Jean Baudrillard and the Donald: Is Trump a Fascist or is He the Parody of Fascism? -- Epistemology of True and False -- Society of the Spectacle and Hyperreality -- Donald Trump the Empty Signifier -- From Simulation to the Grotesque and the Self‐Parody -- Springtime for Hitler -- Serge Latouche Remembers Baudrillard -- Biosphere 2: The Artificial Paradise of Nature -- Reality TV and Baudrillard's Telemorphosis -- The Truman Show: "The Last Thing That I Would Ever Do is Lie to You" -- My Two Key Differences from Baudrillard -- Part Three - Posthumanism: N. Katherine Hayles' History of Cybernetics, Creative Coding, and the Future of Informatics -- Overview of Part Three -- The Science Fiction of Star Trek. Star Trek's Spock, Data, and Seven of Nine and the Three Orders of Cybernetics -- What is Posthumanism? -- The Concept of Nature in Whitehead and Merleau‐Ponty -- Rosi Braidotti's Celebratory Posthuman Philosophy -- A Fully Posthuman Situation -- Wendy Chun on Software Code -- Software Code as Expanded Narration -- The Software of the Future -- Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance -- Technoscience and Storytelling -- From Liberal Humanism to Posthumanism -- Cyborg Spock and NASA's Cyborg -- First Order Cybernetics -- How Information Lost Its Body -- Claus Pias on First‐Order Cybernetics -- Gene Roddenberry Designs His First Alien -- "The Devil in the Dark": Empathy for Radical Otherness -- Second Order Cybernetics -- Bernhard Dotzler on Second‐Order Cybernetics -- The Android Data of Star Trek: The Next Generation -- "The Offspring": Data's Daughter Lal -- Third Order Cybernetics -- "Becoming‐Borg" Seven of Nine -- Star Trek: Picard, "Remembrance" -- "Embodied Informatics" is a Science Fiction Idea -- Hayles on Writing and Software Code -- Hyper‐Modernist Science -- I, Robot and the Moral Dilemmas of the Three Laws of Robotics -- The Zeroth Law of Robotics and the Robot Unconscious -- Hayles on the Cognitive Nonconscious -- Marie‐Luise Angerer Critiques Hayles -- Judith Butler and Gender Theory -- Ex Machina and the Turing Test -- Ex Machina: The Performance of Female and Human -- Monique Wittig, The Straight Mind -- Software Code as Expanded Narration -- Software Code as Expressive Media -- Friedrich Kittler: The Numeric Kernel is Decisive -- Kittler's Media Archaeology -- Wolfgang Hagen on Programming Languages -- Ten Paradigms of Informatics and Programming -- The First Hyper‐Modern Computers -- Enter Software Studies -- Enter Creative Coding -- Alan Turing: The Imitation Game and Befriending the Evil Demon. Alan Turing: The Scientific and Cultural Levels of Computing. |
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| Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2024 | ||
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Stories in post-human cultures / / edited by Adam L. Brackin, Natacha Guyot
| Stories in post-human cultures / / edited by Adam L. Brackin, Natacha Guyot |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, England : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 929.605 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cyborgs - Social aspects
Cyberspace - Social aspects Science fiction - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-84888-271-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Adam L. Brackin and Natacha Guyot -- The Era of Homo Cyborg: Philosophical Aspects of Creating Enhanced ‘Human’ Beings / Ivana Greguric -- Posthuman ‘Visions’ and the (Un)Seeing of Class / Rob Wilkie -- Posthumanist Feminism and the Embodiment of Class / Jennifer Cotter -- Melancholia and Posthumanist Metaphysics / Kimberly DeFazio -- A Visual Semiotic Web-Text and the Viral Video: Scream and Shout / Raffaella Scelzi -- Britney Spears’ ‘Scream and Shout’: Between Rejected Reality and Possible Imaginations / Giorgio Borrelli -- Adding Art to Artifice in Cyber Conversations / Barry Natusch -- The Fragile Monster or the Resurrection of Humanity: The Cyborg as the Mirrored Representation of Human Physical and Intellectual Desire / Judith Rahn -- To Beseech the Mods: Democratic Participation in Unequal Spaces / Michael Burnam-Fink -- What Lies beyond The Matrix? Transmogrification of a Traditional Chinese Technology / Petra Rehling -- Queering Cyberspace in New Delhi: Negotiating Femininity, Masculinity and Thirdness / Janina Geist -- Cyborgs and Consoles: Gender Performativity and the Liberatory Potential of Video Games / Jacqueline Marie Potvin -- The Representations of Cyborgs in Science Fiction Film: Vision, the Body, Gender and Technology / Elle-Sandrah Rheeder -- Ficto-Personal Communication: Defining Relationship-Based Communication with Fictional Characters / Adam L. Brackin -- Structuring Digital Exhibition Contents in the Multi-Touch Environment / Jaroslav Vancat and Daniel Riha -- Episodic Gaming: Interactive Narrative and Immersive Development / Richard Wirth -- Cyberpunk Goes East: Challenging the Western Culture in Contemporary Science Fiction / Krzysztof Solarewicz -- Strange Technology: Fictocriticism and the Cyborg / Michaela Atienza -- Virtual Trauma and Simulation: Cybernetic Performance in Wafaa Bilal’s A Night of Bush Capturing: The Virtual Jihadi / Jenna Ann Altomonte. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480548903321 |
| Oxford, England : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2013] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stories in post-human cultures / / edited by Adam L. Brackin, Natacha Guyot
| Stories in post-human cultures / / edited by Adam L. Brackin, Natacha Guyot |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, England : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 929.605 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cyborgs - Social aspects
Cyberspace - Social aspects Science fiction - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 1-84888-271-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Adam L. Brackin and Natacha Guyot -- The Era of Homo Cyborg: Philosophical Aspects of Creating Enhanced ‘Human’ Beings / Ivana Greguric -- Posthuman ‘Visions’ and the (Un)Seeing of Class / Rob Wilkie -- Posthumanist Feminism and the Embodiment of Class / Jennifer Cotter -- Melancholia and Posthumanist Metaphysics / Kimberly DeFazio -- A Visual Semiotic Web-Text and the Viral Video: Scream and Shout / Raffaella Scelzi -- Britney Spears’ ‘Scream and Shout’: Between Rejected Reality and Possible Imaginations / Giorgio Borrelli -- Adding Art to Artifice in Cyber Conversations / Barry Natusch -- The Fragile Monster or the Resurrection of Humanity: The Cyborg as the Mirrored Representation of Human Physical and Intellectual Desire / Judith Rahn -- To Beseech the Mods: Democratic Participation in Unequal Spaces / Michael Burnam-Fink -- What Lies beyond The Matrix? Transmogrification of a Traditional Chinese Technology / Petra Rehling -- Queering Cyberspace in New Delhi: Negotiating Femininity, Masculinity and Thirdness / Janina Geist -- Cyborgs and Consoles: Gender Performativity and the Liberatory Potential of Video Games / Jacqueline Marie Potvin -- The Representations of Cyborgs in Science Fiction Film: Vision, the Body, Gender and Technology / Elle-Sandrah Rheeder -- Ficto-Personal Communication: Defining Relationship-Based Communication with Fictional Characters / Adam L. Brackin -- Structuring Digital Exhibition Contents in the Multi-Touch Environment / Jaroslav Vancat and Daniel Riha -- Episodic Gaming: Interactive Narrative and Immersive Development / Richard Wirth -- Cyberpunk Goes East: Challenging the Western Culture in Contemporary Science Fiction / Krzysztof Solarewicz -- Strange Technology: Fictocriticism and the Cyborg / Michaela Atienza -- Virtual Trauma and Simulation: Cybernetic Performance in Wafaa Bilal’s A Night of Bush Capturing: The Virtual Jihadi / Jenna Ann Altomonte. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795287803321 |
| Oxford, England : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2013] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stories in post-human cultures / / edited by Adam L. Brackin, Natacha Guyot
| Stories in post-human cultures / / edited by Adam L. Brackin, Natacha Guyot |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, England : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 929.605 |
| Soggetto topico |
Cyborgs - Social aspects
Cyberspace - Social aspects Science fiction - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 1-84888-271-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Adam L. Brackin and Natacha Guyot -- The Era of Homo Cyborg: Philosophical Aspects of Creating Enhanced ‘Human’ Beings / Ivana Greguric -- Posthuman ‘Visions’ and the (Un)Seeing of Class / Rob Wilkie -- Posthumanist Feminism and the Embodiment of Class / Jennifer Cotter -- Melancholia and Posthumanist Metaphysics / Kimberly DeFazio -- A Visual Semiotic Web-Text and the Viral Video: Scream and Shout / Raffaella Scelzi -- Britney Spears’ ‘Scream and Shout’: Between Rejected Reality and Possible Imaginations / Giorgio Borrelli -- Adding Art to Artifice in Cyber Conversations / Barry Natusch -- The Fragile Monster or the Resurrection of Humanity: The Cyborg as the Mirrored Representation of Human Physical and Intellectual Desire / Judith Rahn -- To Beseech the Mods: Democratic Participation in Unequal Spaces / Michael Burnam-Fink -- What Lies beyond The Matrix? Transmogrification of a Traditional Chinese Technology / Petra Rehling -- Queering Cyberspace in New Delhi: Negotiating Femininity, Masculinity and Thirdness / Janina Geist -- Cyborgs and Consoles: Gender Performativity and the Liberatory Potential of Video Games / Jacqueline Marie Potvin -- The Representations of Cyborgs in Science Fiction Film: Vision, the Body, Gender and Technology / Elle-Sandrah Rheeder -- Ficto-Personal Communication: Defining Relationship-Based Communication with Fictional Characters / Adam L. Brackin -- Structuring Digital Exhibition Contents in the Multi-Touch Environment / Jaroslav Vancat and Daniel Riha -- Episodic Gaming: Interactive Narrative and Immersive Development / Richard Wirth -- Cyberpunk Goes East: Challenging the Western Culture in Contemporary Science Fiction / Krzysztof Solarewicz -- Strange Technology: Fictocriticism and the Cyborg / Michaela Atienza -- Virtual Trauma and Simulation: Cybernetic Performance in Wafaa Bilal’s A Night of Bush Capturing: The Virtual Jihadi / Jenna Ann Altomonte. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813952503321 |
| Oxford, England : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2013] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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