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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken : Francis,
Taylor & amp ;
2011.
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Colección: | Routledge research in cultural and media studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Artificial Culture; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; An Artificial Introduction; Part I: Artificial Intelligence; 1. Early Artificial Intelligence Films: 'When are you going to let me out of this box?'; 2. 'I am a machine!': Artificial Intelligencesin Contemporary Cinema; Part II: Artificial Life; 3. From Digital Genesis to the Artificial Other; 4. Diasporic Subjectivities: Not Quite 'Beyond the Infinite'; Part III: Artificial space; 5. The Fortification of Place in the Digital Age; 6. Resistance Is Spatial; 7. The Infinite Plasticity of the Digital?
- Part IV: Artificial People8. Matrices of Embodiment; 9. The Symbiosis of Special Effects; Part V: Artificial Culture; 10. Before the Mourning; 11. Artificial Mourning:Spider-Man, Special Effects, and September 11; Artificial Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.