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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453776703321 |
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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 |
Womack Ytasha
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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 |
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-9910822129003321 |
Womack Ytasha
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Chicago : , : Chicago Review Press, , [2013] | ||
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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 |
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 |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777650403321 |
Haney William S
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Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006 | ||
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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 |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806241703321 |
Haney William S
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Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006 | ||
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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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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] | ||
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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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