Cyberspace Cyberbodies Cyberpunk

Author : Mike Featherstone,Roger Burrows
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848609143

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Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk by Mike Featherstone,Roger Burrows Pdf

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 science fiction as a pre-figurative social and cultural theory.

Author : Sean Redmond
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231501842

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Liquid Metal by Sean Redmond Pdf

Liquid Metal brings together 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. Eight distinct sections cover such topics as the cyborg in science fiction; the science fiction city; time travel and the primal scene; science fiction fandom; and the 1950s invasion narratives. Important writings by Susan Sontag, Vivian Sobchack, Steve Neale, J.P. Telotte, Peter Biskind and Constance Penley are included.

Author : John R. Perlich,David Whitt
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 1433100959

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Sith, Slayers, Stargates & Cyborgs by John R. Perlich,David Whitt Pdf

The beginning of the twenty-first century has already seen its fair share of modern myths with heroes such as Spider-Man, Superman, and Harry Potter. The authors in this volume deconstruct, discuss, engage, and interrogate the mythologies of the new millennium in science fiction fantasy texts. Using literary and rhetorical criticism - paired with philosophy, cultural studies, media arts, psychology, and communication studies - they illustrate the function, value, and role of new mythologies, and show that the universal appeal of these texts is their mythic power, drawing upon archetypes of the past which resonate with individuals and throughout culture. In this way they demonstrate how mythology is timeless and eternal.

Author : David Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134561377

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Virtual Globalization by David Holmes Pdf

This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how these, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity. This work will be of essential interest to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, geography, cultural studies and media studies.

Author : Robin Truth Goodman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350032408

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory by Robin Truth Goodman Pdf

The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory was a PROSE Award finalist. The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought. With chapters written by world-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, the book explores the latest thinking on key topics in current feminist discourse, including: · Feminist subjectivity – from identity, difference, and intersectionality to affect, sex and the body · Feminist texts – writing, reading, genre and critique · Feminism and the world – from power, trauma and value to technology, migration and community Including insights from literary and cultural studies, philosophy, political science and sociology, The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is an essential overview of current feminist thinking and future directions for scholarship, debate and activism.

Author : John Hassard,Ruth Holliday,Hugh Willmott
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857026323

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Body and Organization by John Hassard,Ruth Holliday,Hugh Willmott Pdf

Issues around identity, agency and reflexivity are opened up and explored in a refreshing new perspective that deepens our understanding of organization and institutions. Body and Organization thorougly invigorates the study of process and brings the organization to three-dimensional life for a new generation of students and researchers.

Author : Dani Cavallaro
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847140357

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Cyberpunk & Cyberculture by Dani Cavallaro Pdf

Cyberpunk and Cyberculture explores the work of a wide range of writers- Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shierley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson - setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema - from Metropolis to Terminator to The Matrix - and contemporary work on the culture of technology.

Author : Dr Helen Thornham
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781409494379

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Ethnographies of the Videogame by Dr Helen Thornham Pdf

Ethnographies of the Videogame uses the medium of the videogame to explore wider significant sociological issues around new media, interaction, identity, performance, memory and mediation. Addressing questions of how we interpret, mediate and use media texts, particularly in the face of claims about the power of new media to continuously shift the parameters of lived experience, gaming is employed as a 'tool' through which we can understand the gendered and socio-culturally constructed phenomenon of our everyday engagement with media. The book is particularly concerned with issues of agency and power, identifying strong correlations between perceptions of gaming and actual gaming practices, as well as the reinforcement, through gaming, of established (gendered, sexed, and classed) power relationships within households. As such, it reveals the manner in which existing relations re-emerge through engagement with new technology. Offering an empirically grounded understanding of what goes on when we mediate technology and media in our everyday lives Ethnographies of the Videogame is more than a timely intervention into game studies. It provides pertinent and reflexive commentary on the relationship between text and audience, highlighting the relationships of gender and power in gaming practice. As such, it will appeal to scholars interested in media and new media, gender and class, and the sociology of leisure.

Author : Nicola Rehling
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461633426

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Extra-Ordinary Men by Nicola Rehling Pdf

Extra-Ordinary Men analyzes popular cinematic representations of white heterosexual masculinity as the 'ordinary' form of male identity, one that enjoys considerable economic, social, political, and representational strength. Nicola Rehling argues that while this normative position affords white heterosexual masculinity ideological and political dominance, such 'ordinariness' also engenders the anxiety that it is a depthless, vacuous, and unstable identity. At a time when the neutrality of white heterosexual masculinity has been challenged by identity politics, this insightful volume offers lucid accounts of contemporary theoretical debates on masculinity in popular cinema, and explores the strategies deployed in popular films to reassert white heterosexual male hegemony through detailed readings of films as diverse as Fight Club, Boys Don't Cry, and The Matrix. Accessible to undergraduates, but also of interest to film scholars, the book makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the ways in which popular film helps construct and maintain many unexamined assumptions about masculinity, gender, race, and sexuality.

Author : Lory Hawkes,Joe Law,Christina Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313095887

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The Theory and Criticism of Virtual Texts by Lory Hawkes,Joe Law,Christina Murphy Pdf

Virtual texts have emerged within the realm of the Internet as the predominant means of global communication. As both technological and cultural artifacts, they embody and challenge cultural assumptions and invite new ways of conceptualizing knowledge, community, identity, and meaning. But despite the pervasiveness of the Internet in nearly all aspects of contemporary life, no single resource has cataloged the ways in which numerous disciplines have investigated and critiqued virtual texts. This bibliography includes more than 1500 annotated entries for books, articles, dissertations, and electronic resources on virtual texts published between 1988 and 1999. Because of the multiple contexts in which virtual texts are studied, the bibliography addresses virtual communication across a broad range of disciplines and philosophies. It encompasses studies of the historical development of virtual texts; investigations of the many interdisciplinary applications of virtual texts and discussions of such legal issues as privacy and intellectual property. Entries are arranged alphabetically within topical chapters, and extensive indexes facilitate easy access.

Author : Leah A. Lievrouw,Sonia M. Livingstone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Digital media
ISBN : 9780415431606

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New Media by Leah A. Lievrouw,Sonia M. Livingstone Pdf

Author : K. Kitsi-Mitakou,Z. Detsi-Diamanti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780230620858

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The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body by K. Kitsi-Mitakou,Z. Detsi-Diamanti Pdf

Encompassing some of the most recent academic research on mainstream issues of body image, weight and representation of the body, this collection addresses the body in areas such as ancient Greek poetry, new media art, comic book culture and biotechnology.

Author : Frederick Buell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781135953140

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From Apocalypse to Way of Life by Frederick Buell Pdf

From Apocalypse to Way of Life is a comprehensive and in depth survey of environmental crisis as it has been understood for the last four decades. Buell recounts the growing number of ecological and social problems critical for the environment, and the impact that the growing experience with, and understanding of, them has had on American politics, society and culture.

Author : Mary Kosut
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781412990790

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Encyclopedia of Gender in Media by Mary Kosut Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Gender in Media critically examines the role of the media in enabling, facilitating, or challenging the social construction of gender in our society.

Author : Michael W. Apple,Hank Bromley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791497678

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Education/Technology/Power by Michael W. Apple,Hank Bromley Pdf

Is the enormous financial investment school districts are making in computing technology a good idea? With a focus on educational computing, Education/Technology/Power examines how technological practices align with or subvert existing forms of dominance.