Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk : Cultures of Technological Embodiment (Theory, Culture and Society Series) Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:300121 L3 - citeulike-article-id:300121 N2 - {How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world? This innovative collection explores the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human body. Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk shows how changing relationships between body and technology offer new arenas for cultural representations. At the same time, the contributors consider 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 science fiction as a prefigurative social and cultural theory. Academics and students in cultural studies, popular culture, communication, sociology of culture, philosophy will appreciate this intriguing volume, as will general readers with an interest in the Internet.} SN - 0761950842 TI - Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk : Cultures of Technological Embodiment (Theory, Culture and Society Series) PB - {SAGE Publications} KW - cyberpunk KW - cyberspace KW - embodiment KW - mary-weaver KW - new-media PY - 1996/04/04/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0761950842 ER -