The Projected And Prophetic Humanity In Cyberculture Cyberspace And Science Fiction

Author : Jordan J. Copeland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848880870

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The Projected and Prophetic: Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction by Jordan J. Copeland Pdf

The papers collected in this volume document the exchange and development of ideas that comprised the 5th Global Conference on Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction, hosted at Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, in July 2010.

Author : Eric Carl Link,Gerry Canavan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107052468

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The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction by Eric Carl Link,Gerry Canavan Pdf

This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.

Author : Nicholas van Orden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848881631

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Navigating Cybercultures by Nicholas van Orden Pdf

The papers collected here address the questions about posthumanism, hybridity, humanity, subjectivity, and aesthetics that echo through all of our daily attempts to navigate our rapidly shifting cybercultures.

Author : Grzegorz Trębicki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443875264

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Worlds So Strange and Diverse by Grzegorz Trębicki Pdf

This book represents an analysis of contemporary fantasy (non-mimetic) literature in all its richness and diversity, and offers a preliminary definition of the major fields of taxonomical interest, in addition to marking some of the unmapped territories of “fantastic” fiction. In its first part, the book presents an overview of all major previous theoretical discussions of the issue, particularly those by Tzvetan Todorov, Rosemary Jackson, Darko Suvin, Brian Attebery, Marek Oziewicz and Farah Mendlesohn. The second part of the book provides an interesting comprehensive taxonomy of its own, based on the notion of supragenological types of literature, first introduced by Andrzej Zgorzelski.

Author : Andrzej Kowalczyk,Katarzyna Pisarska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443865135

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The Lives of Texts by Andrzej Kowalczyk,Katarzyna Pisarska Pdf

The Lives of Texts: Exploring the Metaphor examines various instances of “textual subsistence” implied by the title. Drawing on the parallel between a text and a living organism, the contributors analyze various literary texts ranging from the Middle Ages to postmodernity, as well as film adaptations and the graphic novel. Apart from the works of canonical writers, attention is also drawn to some long-forgotten authors, along with the most recent instances of popular literature and culture. The exploration of the title metaphor allows the contributors to trace life-like phenomena (e.g. textual birth, maturation, dissemination, death and resurrection) in the texts of writers so remote from each other as Layamon, Thomas More, Mary Shelley, Charles Williams, Ursula Le Guin, A. S. Byatt, Peter Ackroyd, Iain Banks, J. K. Rowling, or Neil Gaiman.

Author : Dani Cavallaro
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781904710165

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Visions of the Human in Science Fiction and Cyberpunk by Anonim Pdf

This collection of papers joins a growing body of work addressing what are arguably some of the most important questions faced in the 21st century; what does it mean to be human and what do we understand by humanity?

Author : William S. Haney
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042019485

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Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction by William S. Haney Pdf

Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. In exploiting the mind's capacity for instrumental behavior, posthumanists seek to extend human experience by physically projecting the mind outward through the continuity of thought and the material world, as through telepresence and other forms of prosthetic enhancements. Posthumanism envisions a biology/machine symbiosis that will promote this extension, arguably at the expense of the natural tendency of the mind to move toward pure consciousness. As each chapter of this book contends, by forcibly overextending and thus jeopardizing the neurophysiology of consciousness, the posthuman condition could in the long term undermine human nature, defined as the effortless capacity for transcending the mind's conceptual content. Presented here for the first time, the essential argument of this book is more than a warning; it gives a direction: far better to practice patience and develop pure consciousness and evolve into a higher human being than to fall prey to the Faustian temptations of biotechnological power. As argued throughout the book, each person must choose for him or herself between the technological extension of physical experience through mind, body and world on the one hand, and the natural powers of human consciousness on the other as a means to realize their ultimate vision.

Author : Artur Matos Alves
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848881082

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Unveiling the Post-human by Artur Matos Alves Pdf

This electronic book gathers twenty papers presented at the 6th Global Conference Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction, which took place in the Mansfield College of Oxford, between the 12th and the 14th of July 2011.

Author : Elsa Bouet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848883369

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The (Un)Certain Future of Empathy in Posthumanism, Cyberculture and Science Fiction by Elsa Bouet Pdf

Author : William S. Haney
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042019484

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Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction by William S. Haney Pdf

Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. In exploiting the mind's capacity for instrumental behavior, posthumanists seek to extend human experience by physically projecting the mind outward through the continuity of thought and the material world, as through telepresence and other forms of prosthetic enhancements. Posthumanism envisions a biology/machine symbiosis that will promote this extension, arguably at the expense of the natural tendency of the mind to move toward pure consciousness. As each chapter of this book contends, by forcibly overextending and thus jeopardizing the neurophysiology of consciousness, the posthuman condition could in the long term undermine human nature, defined as the effortless capacity for transcending the mind's conceptual content. Presented here for the first time, the essential argument of this book is more than a warning; it gives a direction: far better to practice patience and develop pure consciousness and evolve into a higher human being than to fall prey to the Faustian temptations of biotechnological power. As argued throughout the book, each person must choose for him or herself between the technological extension of physical experience through mind, body and world on the one hand, and the natural powers of human consciousness on the other as a means to realize their ultimate vision.

Author : Jenny Wolmark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computer sex
ISBN : UOM:39015051279365

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Cybersexualities by Jenny Wolmark Pdf

Cyberspace, the cyborg and cyberpunk have given feminists new imaginative possibilities for thinking about embodiment and identity in relation to technology. This is the first anthology of the key essays on these potent metaphors. Divided into three sections (Technology, Embodiment and Cyberspace; Cybersubjects: Cyborgs and Cyberpunks; Cyborg Futures), the book addresses different aspects of the human-technology interface. The extensive introduction surveys the ways cyborg and cyberspace metaphors have been used in relation to current critical theory and indicates the context for the specific essays. This is an invaluable guide for students studying any aspects of contemporary theory and culture.* Brings together in a unique collection the work of key authors in feminist and cyber theory* Demonstrates the wide range of contemporary critical work* Challenges constructions of gender, race and class* An extensive introduction surveys the ways cyborg and cyberspace metaphors have been used in relation to current critical theory* Brief section introductions indicate the context for the specific essays

Author : Paul Jahshan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cyberspace
ISBN : 0820488852

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Cybermapping and the Writing of Myth by Paul Jahshan Pdf

Original Scholarly Monograph

Author : Sarah Kember
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Artificial life
ISBN : 0415240271

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Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life by Sarah Kember Pdf

Examining the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics rather than on the 'nature' of artificial life.

Author : Melanie Chan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781623564742

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Virtual Reality by Melanie Chan Pdf

The idea of virtual realities has a long and complex historical trajectory, spanning from Plato's concept of the cave and the simulacrum, to artistic styles such as Trompe L'oeil, and more recently developments in 3D film, television and gaming. However, this book will pay particular attention to the time between the 1980s to the 1990s when virtual reality and cyberspace were represented, particularly in fiction, as a wondrous technology that enabled transcendence from the limitations of physical embodiment. The purpose of this critical historical analysis of representations of virtual reality is to examine how they might deny, repress or overlook embodied experience. Specifically, the author will contend that embodiment is a fundamental aspect of immersion in virtual reality, rather than something which is to be transcended. In this way, the book aims to challenge distorted ideas about transcendence and productively contribute to debates about embodiment and technology.