THE SOULS OF CYBERFOLK by Thomas Foster ( 9780816634064 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

Item Details

Title:

THE SOULS OF CYBERFOLK
POSTHUMANISM AS VERNACULAR THEORY

By:

Thomas Foster

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£20.99

Our price:

£18.89

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£2.10

ISBN 10:

0816634068

ISBN 13:

9780816634064

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS

Pub. date:

1 May, 2005

Series:

Electronic Mediations S. 13.00

Pages:

392

Description:

Considers the construction of race, gender, and sexuality in virtual reality.

Synopsis:

In The Souls of Cyberfolk, 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 (the Extropy Institute), commercial art (Hajime Sorayama's gynoids or sexy robot illustrations), comic books (Deathlok), film (Robocop), and music video (from Billy Idol's Cyberpunk album). The central challenge that cyberpunk poses for cultural critics, Foster argues, is to understand what happens when the technological denaturalization of physical embodiment becomes the norm. This question acquires urgency as the focus of his book moves beyond the typical technocultural concerns with gender and sexuality to consider race and models of citizenship - a shift that constitutes one of the book's most original contributions to scholarship on the topic.

Publication:

Imprint:

University of Minnesota Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

A NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN AMERICA, OF THE SOCIETY CALLED QUAKERS, IN THE CASE OF HANNAH BARNARD

A NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN AMERICA, OF THE SOCIETY CALLED QUAKERS, IN THE CASE OF HANNAH BARNARD, WITH A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE PREVIOUS TRANSAC

A NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN AMERICA, OF THE SOCIETY CALLED QUAKERS, IN THE CASE OF HANNAH BARNARD; INTENDED AS A SEQUEL TO AN APPEAL TO THE SO

A NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY CALLED QUAKERS, WITHIN THE QUARTERLY MEETING FOR LONDO

A NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY CALLED QUAKERS, WITHIN THE QUARTERLY MEETING FOR LONDO (HB)

A NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY CALLED QUAKERS, WITHIN THE QUARTERLY MEETING FOR LONDON AND MIDDLESEX; AGAINST THOMAS FOSTER, FOR