Prosthetic territories : politics and hypertechnologies /
Defined as that space of collision between human and machine, where technology and humanity fuse, is the "prosthetic territory." Within that territory a new political and cultural struggle emerges, a territory where theory and practice can converge. The essayists in this volume approach in...
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Boulder :
Westview Press,
1995.
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| Series: | Politics and culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Gabriel Brahm, Jr.
- 1. The City in Pieces / Victor Burgin
- 2. Slackspace: The Politics of Waste / Patrick Durkee
- 3. Under Western Eyes: The Media in the Gulf War / Mahmut Mutman
- 4. The Subject of Imperial Geography / Bruce Avery
- 5. Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water ... / Daniel L. Selden
- 6. Versions of the Perverse / Catherine Greenblatt
- 7. The Politics of Immortality: Cybernetic Science/Fiction and Death / Gabriel Brahm, Jr.
- 8. Feminist Hesitations, Postmodern Exposures / Wendy Brown
- 9. Autotopographies / Jennifer A. Gonzalez
- 10. Video Production, Liberation Aesthetics, and U.S. Third World Feminist Criticism / Chela Sandoval
- 11. Re/Sounding Race, Re/Signifying Ethnography: Sampling Oaktown Rap / Jackie Orr
- 12. Aliens in the Corpus: Shakespeare's Books in the Age of the Cyborg / Elizabeth Pittenger
- 13. The Cyborg Body Politic and the New World Order / Chris Hables Gray and Steven Mentor.
- 14. Eyephone, Therefore I Am: Miki Kiyoshi on Cyborg-Envy in Being and Time / Mark Driscoll
- 15. The Best of Both Worlds: On Star Trek's Borg / Julia Witwer
- 16. Recline and Crawl of Western Civilization: An Interview with Arthur Kroker / Gabriel Brahm, Jr.