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
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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