Artificial Culture : Identity, Technology, and Bodies.

Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leaver, Tama
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Francis, Taylor & amp ; 2011.
Colección:Routledge research in cultural and media studies.
Temas:
Artificial life.
Artificial intelligence.
Virtual reality.
Popular culture.
Technology > Social aspects.
Science > Social aspects.
Artificial Intelligence
Virtual Reality
Popular Culture
Vie artificielle.
Intelligence artificielle.
Réalité virtuelle.
Culture populaire.
Sciences > Aspect social.
artificial intelligence.
virtual reality.
popular culture.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial life
Popular culture
Science > Social aspects
Technology > Social aspects
Virtual reality
Künstliches Leben.
Virtuelle Realität.
Künstliche Intelligenz.
Massenkultur.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable relationship between people, our bodies, and technology at large. While the artificial is often imagined as outside of the natural order and thus also beyond the realm of humanity, paradoxically, artificial concepts are simultaneously produced and constructed by human ideas and labor. The artificial.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (221 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780203134177
0203134176

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