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
Main Author: Foster, Thomas, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
American Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
English.
Technology in literature.
Science fiction, American.
Literature and technology.
Cyborgs in literature.
Cybernetics in literature.
COMPUTERS > Virtual Worlds.
Cyborgs dans la litterature.
Technologie dans la litterature.
Litterature et technologie > États-Unis.
Cybernetique dans la litterature.
Literature and technology > United States.
Science fiction, American > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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, queer sexualities, and ethnic and racial differences as well as developments in nationalist models of citizenship and global economic flows. Beginning with William Gibson's paradigmatic text Neuromancer, and continuing through the works of Maureen McHugh, Melissa Scott, Neal Stephenson, Greg Egan, and Ken MacLeod, Foster measures cyberpunk's reach into social and philosophical movements, commercial art, comic books, film, and music video."--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:1 online resource (344 pages): illustrations.
ISBN:9781452935232

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