Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0761950850 ISBN 13: 9780761950851

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Ltd, 1996

Riassunto

How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world?

This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human body. It shows how changing relations between body and technology offer new arenas for cultural representations. At the same time, the contributors examine the realities of human embodiment and the limits of virtual worlds. Topics examined include: technological body modifications, replacements and prosthetics; bodies in cyberspace, virtual environments and cyborg culture; cultural representations of technological embodiment in visual and literary productions; and cyberpunk scienc

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Recensione

`[The] introduction gives a clear digest of the field and its problematics... Among contributors are the stars of the digital academy - Sadie Plant, Michael Heim, Mark Poster, Kevin Robins, Vivian Sobchack and Anne Balsamo... much of the content is new and alert to the growing literature in the field.... among the better contributions to the publishing boom of the last two years... very useful in undergraduate teaching' - Sociology

L'autore

Mike Featherstone is Professor of Communications and Sociology at Nottingham Trent University.

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA :

Zygmunt Bauman University of Leeds

Henning Bech University of Copenhagen

Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim Universtiy of Erlangen

Mary Evans University of Kent at Canterbury

David Frisby University of Glasgow

Mike Hepworth University of Aberdeen

Eva Illouz Tel-Aviv University

Maria Esther Maciel Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Michael Richardson SOAS, University of London

Laura Rival University of Kent at Canterbury

Andrew Travers Somerset

Jeffrey Weeks South Bank University

Sasha Weitman Tel-Aviv University

Sam Whimster London Guildhall University

Elizabeth Wilson University of North London

Cas Wouters University of Utrecht

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0761950850
• ISBN 13: 9780761950851
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 280
• Redattore: Featherstone Mike, Burrows Roger