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Il cyborg: Saggio sull'uomo artificiale

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Born on the pages of science fiction comics in the 1920s and 30s, the cyborg lives in popular imagination. As hero of the cyberpunk epic, in its brief but intense history, the cyborg has followed and anticipated the rapport and conflict between man and machine. In the post-Fordist era of digital networked media the cyborg unfolds itself in the dissemination of multiple on the Internet, in the shift of individual identity, in the new collective aggregation connected by software. It bridges virtuality and concreteness, possibility and necessity. The cyborg thus becomes a field of social conflict, one of the new figures in which the bio-political perspective is embodied.

155 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

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Antonio Caronia

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18 reviews
March 15, 2023
Testo fondamentale sul cyborg, soprattutto sulle premesse e gli scenari teorici e immaginari di partenza. Risente forse del modo di trattare quell'argomento secondo uno stile e interessi molto anni 1990 - in particolare: si sofferma poco sull'apporto femminile alla questione.
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August 17, 2017
un ottimo saggio sulla figura del cyborg, le cui conclusioni pongono interrogativi che erano interessanti nel 2001 quando il libro venne scritto ma che sono cruciali ora. (e stia attento chi teme l'improbabile "ideologia gender". qui c'è "l'ideologia cyborg", si va oltre...)
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7 reviews
October 13, 2018
First edition: Il cyborg. Saggio sull'uomo artificiale, Shake, Milano, 1985
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