Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0761950842 ISBN 13 : 9780761950844

Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 1996

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mike Featherstone is Professor of Sociology and Roger Burrows is Reader in Sociology, both at the Centre for the Study ofAdult Life, Univeristy of Teesside.

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Nigel Clark Auckland

Deborah Lupton University of Western Sydney Nepean

Kevin McCarron Roehampton Institute

Sadie Plant University of Warwick

Kevin Robins University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761950842
• ISBN 13: 9780761950844
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Featherstone Mike, Burrows Roger
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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