Overview

How have our social and cultural perspectives of humanity been influenced by cyberculture? How do our concepts of self and identity change when we interact in cyberspace? How does science fiction reflect or inform our technorganic environment? The increasing human interface with machines is an expanding area of interest for social and cultural theorists and stimulates a socially influential sphere of cultural, political and economic action and interaction. This book generates multiple inquiries into how these technologies influence and/or redesign our social and political landscapes, offering new conceptions of self and community. The chapters that make up this book offer a multidisciplinary survey of just some of the issues and developments humanity's interaction and integration with cyberculture, cyberspace and science fiction can reveal.

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Author:   Tania Honey
Publisher:   Inter/Connexions
Imprint:   Inter-Disciplinary Press
ISBN:  

9781848882904

ISBN 10:   1848882904
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   01 January 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Tania Honey Part I Narratives of the Posthuman Do we Really Die? Bodies in Cyberculture: Life and Social Existence after Death Raquel Botelho Posthuman Rights: The Ethics of Alien Encounter Elana Gomel Canon and Contingency in Mass Effect Adam W. Ruch Seeing the World 'Through Other Eyes' The Self and Its Others in Post-War Science Fiction Jorge Martins Rosa Part II The Technological Sublime 'You're transformed, you're polluted, changed, dyed, altered. And you'll never be the same': Pat Cadigan's Cyberpunk Fiction and Jessica Benjamin's Notion of 'Intersubjectivity' Ana Makuc Cyborgs in the Garden: Tales of Iden in Kage Baker's Company Series Tania Honey The Writing Writer: Fictional Autobiography in Claudio Sanchez' The Amory Wars LJ Maher Part III What is Human? Wrong Laughter: Laughing Away the Human in Richard Powers' Galatea 2.2 Fran McDonald Human Sickness and Posthuman Salvation: Visions of Humanity between the Posthuman and the Non-human Hadas Elber-Aviram Man and Language in Maurice G. Dantec's Novels Claire Cornillon The Tyranny of the Artificial and the Limits of Politics in Dystopian Science Fiction Artur Matos Alves Part IV Bodies and Spirituality Reconceptualising Body, Space and Place: Telepresence and Mobile Media in Art M. Luisa Gomez Martinez We see Cyborgs Differently: A Comparative Study between North American and Latin American Cyberpunk Rodolfo Rorato Londero Technorganic Boundaries: Queering Bodies and Feeling Technology in Two Cybercultures Ann-Renee Clark

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Tania Honey is a teacher of literature, philosophy and history at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. Her PhD research is a multidisciplinary exploration of the cyborg in militarism, feminism and science fiction, which has led to further explorations into the philosophy of technology and nanotechnology

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