Roger (Hrsg.) Burrows

Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk

Cultures of Technological Embodiment

Buch

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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Featherstone, Mike (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-7619-5084-4
EAN: 9780761950844
Produktnummer: 7095419
Verlag: Sage Publications UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.0 cm 601 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 601

Über den Autor

Mike Featherstone is Professor of Communications and Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA : Zygmunt Bauman University of Leeds Henning Bech University of Copenhagen Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim Universtiy of Erlangen Mary Evans University of Kent at Canterbury David Frisby University of Glasgow Mike Hepworth University of Aberdeen Eva Illouz Tel-Aviv University Maria Esther Maciel Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Michael Richardson SOAS, University of London Laura Rival University of Kent at Canterbury Andrew Travers Somerset Jeffrey Weeks South Bank University Sasha Weitman Tel-Aviv University Sam Whimster London Guildhall University Elizabeth Wilson University of North London Cas Wouters University of Utrecht