The souls of cyberfolk : posthumanism as vernacular theory /

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"Thomas Foster traces the transformation of cyberpunk from a literary movement into a multimedia cultural phenomenon. He examines how cyberpunk defined a framework for thinking about the cultural implications of new technologies - a framework flexible enough to incorporate issues of gender, que...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Foster, Thomas, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005.
Series:Electronic mediations ; v. 13.
Subjects:
Science fiction, American > History and criticism.
Cybernetics in literature.
Literature and technology > United States.
Technology in literature.
Cyborgs in literature.
Cybernétique dans la littérature.
Littérature et technologie > États-Unis.
Technologie dans la littérature.
Cyborgs dans la littérature.
COMPUTERS > Virtual Worlds.
Literature and technology.
Science fiction, American.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cyberpunk's posthuman afterlife
  • The legacies of cyberpunk fiction : new cultural formations and the emergence of the posthuman
  • Meat puppets or robopaths : the question of (dis)embodiment in neuromancer
  • The sex appeal of the inorganic : posthuman narratives and constructions of desire
  • Trapped by the body : telepresence technologies and transgendered performance
  • The souls of cyberfolk : performativity, virtual embodiment, and racial histories
  • Replaying the L.A. riots : cyborg narratives and national traumas
  • Franchise nationalisms : globalization, consumer culture, and new ethnicities
  • The antinomies of posthuman thought.

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