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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
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monografia Rebiun22784342 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun22784342 m o d cr |n|---||||| 121213s1996 enk o 000 0 eng d 9781848609143 1848609140 MHW eng pn MHW EBLCP OCLCQ CGU OCLCQ AU@ OCLCO OCLCF Featherstone, Mike Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk Cultures of Technological Embodiment London SAGE Publications 1996 London London SAGE Publications 1 online resource (287 pages) 1 online resource (287 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society 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 Cinema Chapter 10 -- Prosthetic Memory: Total Recal and Blade RunnerChapter 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; Index 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 Cybernetics- Social aspects Human body- Social aspects Information society Virtual reality Cybernetics- Social aspects Human body- Social aspects Information society Virtual reality Electronic books Burrows, Roger Print version 9780761950851 Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society