| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) |
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Theory, culture & society |
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Theory, culture & society.
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| Contents |
Cultures of technological embodiment : an introduction / Mike Featherstone, Roger Burrows -- Feedback and cybernetics : reimaging the body in the age of cybernetics / David Tomas -- The futuure looms : weaving women and cybernetics / Sadie Plant -- The design of virtual reality / Michael Heim -- Postmodern virtualities / Mark Poster -- The embodied computer/user / Deborah Lupton -- Rear-view mirrorshades : the recursive generation of the cyberbody / Nigel Clark -- Cyberspace and the world we live in / Kevin Robbins |
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(cont.) Descartes goes to Hollywood : mind, body and gender in contemporary cyborg cinema / Samantha Holland -- Prosthetic memory : Total recall and Blade runner / Alison Landsberg -- Meat (or how to kill Oedipus in cyberspace) / Nick Land -- Beating the meat/surviving the text, or how to get out of this century alive / Vivian Sobchack -- Forms of technological embodiment : reading the body in contemporary culture / Anne Balsamo -- Cyber(body)parts : prosthetic consciousness / Robert Rawdon Wilson -- Corpses, animals, machines and mannequins : the body and cyberpunk / Kevin McCarron |
| Summary |
This book investigates the realities of human embodiment and the limits of virtual worlds, and covers many topics. It will be of interest to academics and students in cultural studies, popular culture, communication, sociology of culture, and philosophy |
| Analysis |
Culture Related to Technology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Virtual reality.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Virtual reality -- Social aspects
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Computers and civilization.
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Human-computer interaction.
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Cyborgs.
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Information society.
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Cybernetics -- Social aspects
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Human body -- Data processing
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Cyberspace.
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Virtual Reality
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Attitude to Computers
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virtual reality.
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cyberspace.
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COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
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Virtual reality -- Social aspects
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Information society
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Human-computer interaction
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Cyborgs
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Cyberspace
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Cybernetics -- Social aspects
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Computers and civilization
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Virtual reality
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Virtuele werkelijkheid.
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Informatiemaatschappij.
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Belichaming.
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Cultuurverandering.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Featherstone, Mike
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Burrows, Roger, 1962-
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| LC no. |
96135949 |
| ISBN |
9781848609143 |
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1848609140 |
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0585340773 |
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9780585340777 |
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9781446250198 |
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1446250199 |
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1283881098 |
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9781283881098 |
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