Artificial Culture
Identity, Technology, and Bodies
Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of the artificial in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable relationship between people, our bodies, and technology at large. While the artificial is often imagined as outside of the natural order and thus also beyond the realm of humanity, paradoxically, artificial concepts are simultaneously produced and constructed by human ideas and labor. The artificial can thus act as a boundary point against which we as a culture…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-136-48124-6
- EAN: 9781136481246
- Produktnummer: 13817102
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'405 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 17 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 17 schwarz-weiße Fotos
Über den Autor
Tama Leaver is a lecturer in the Internet Studies department at Curtin University of Technology.
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