Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk : Cultures of Technological Embodiment.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Featherstone, Mike
Other Authors:	Burrows, Roger
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : SAGE Publications, 1996.
Series:	Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society.
Subjects:	Cybernetics > Social aspects. Human body > Social aspects. Information society. Virtual reality. virtual reality. Cybernetics > Social aspects Human body > Social aspects Information society Virtual reality
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

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.

Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk : Cultures of Technological Embodiment.

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