Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

ISBN 10: 0761950850 / ISBN 13: 9780761950851

Published by SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761950850
• ISBN 13: 9780761950851
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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