Virtual Futures : Cyberotics, Technology and Posthuman Pragmatism

ISBN-13: 9780415133791 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 144 str.

Joan Broadhurst Dixon; Eric J. Cassidy

Opis

This work brings together cyberfeminism, postmodern fiction, computing culture, materialist philosophy, and performance art to discuss and articulate the consequences of an increasingly synthetic, virtual and technological world. The contested and controversial zone of debate throughout these essays is the notion of the posthuman, the erotic relation between humans and machines, and the possibility of the cyborg as the free human. This collection aims to understand and analyze the implications of information and technology by drawing closely on cyber-punk writings by Pynchon and Ballard, as well as the materialist philosophies of Freud, Deleuze, and Haraway.

Spis treści

Preface: Virtual Futures Eric J. Cassidy Part 1. The Information War Hakim Bey Part 2. Cyberotics, Theses on the Cyberotics of History: Venus in Microsoft, remix Stephen Pfohl Coming Across the Future Sadie Plant All New Gen VNS Matrix Part 3. Cyberculture Singularities Telepathy and Illiteracy: Alphabetic Consciousness and the Age of Cyberotics David Porush Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason Manuel De Landa Part 4. Anarcho-Materialism Cybergothic Nick Land Epidermal History and Speed Politics Matteo Mandarini Black Ice Iain Hamilton Grant Part 5. Posthuman Pragmatism Autogedon Stephan Metcalf Da Body Stelarc Postscript: Ground Zero Joan Broadhurst Dixon.

O autorze

Joan Broadhurst Dixon is a lecturer in Social and Cultural Theory at the University of Derby. She teaches a course on Post-Human Thought. Eric Cassidy is doing research on the relationship between Deleuze and Pynchon at Warwick University. He co-ordinated the Virual Futures 1994 and 1995 Conferences at Warwick University.