Title Visions of the Human in Science Fiction and Cyberpunk

Published Boston : BRILL, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (260 p.) Contents Intro -- Visions of the Human in Science Fiction and Cyberpunk -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Living within Cyberculture Today -- Cyberspace, Culture and the Local-Global Nexus -- The Influences of Technology: Understanding How Technology Contributes to Who we are Online -- Perichoresis and Praxis in Usenet -- Women on the Web: Towards a Cyberpsychology of Gender, Identity and Space in the Academic Workplace -- A Feminist Critical Review -- The Socializing Dimension of the Virtual Sphere in Founding a Lesbian Community -- Pro-Ana: Peer Groups in Cyberspace The Future is Now: 9/11, CCTV and our Brave New World -- For a Khōrismology of Cyberspace -- From DNA to TCP: Humanity and Evolution in Cyberspace -- The Cyborg Body Politics: Politics in the Post-Human Age -- Cyberpunk and Empire -- Cyberpunk Politics: Hacking and Bricolage -- PART II: Imaginings of Future (Cyber) Worlds -- Glimpses of Humanity in Greg Egan's Science Fiction -- Freedom and Power: Cyberdemocracy in the Future Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein -- The Death of the Human and Birth of the Post-Human Subjects in Philip K. Dick's Possible Worlds and William Gibson's Cyberspace The Desert of the Real: Christianity, Buddhism & Baudrillard in The Matrix Films and Popular Culture -- 'I met a ghost that was not there': Deus ex Machina and Associated Techno-Mystic Hokum -- Bound for Transcendence, Bound for Escape: Sub-Intelligent Technology and Humanity in Contemporary Science Fiction -- Surgically Altered Bodies in The Female Man -- Queering the Hets: Sex, Gender and Sexuality in The Matrix and eXistenZ -- The Female Body in Bruce Sterling's Cyberpunk Novel Holy Fire -- Your Body is a Battleground: Lust-Machines, Cyberflesh and Man-Meat in the film Tetsuo Notes Description based upon print version of record Cyborg Iconography: Constructing the Image of the Cyborg Subject Cyberpunk culture Form Electronic book Author Pretzsch, Birgit ISBN 9781904710165 1904710166

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