Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment

by Mike Featherstone (Editor), Roger Burrows (Editor)

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 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.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Cyberpunk, Technology, Sociology, Theory

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Samsko · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is fucking sexy

[Roberto Ruiz · Rating 3 out of 5]

La realidad superó a la ficción... muchas cosas han quedado obsoletas.