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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Other Authors: Driscoll, Mark, Brahm, Gabriel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder : Westview Press, 1995.
Series:Politics and culture ; 3
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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.