Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment: 43 (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761950850 ISBN 13: 9780761950851

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Mike Featherstone is Professor of Sociology and Roger Burrows is Reader in Sociology, both at the Centre for the Study ofAdult Life, Univeristy of Teesside.

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Nigel Clark Auckland

Deborah Lupton University of Western Sydney Nepean

Kevin McCarron Roehampton Institute

Sadie Plant University of Warwick

Kevin Robins University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761950850
• ISBN 13: 9780761950851
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Featherstone Mike, Burrows Roger