ISBN:
0415899168
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9780415899161
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9781136481246
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 217 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Artificial Culture : Identity, Technology, and Bodies
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Science - Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable relationship between people, our bodies, and technology at large. While the artificial is often imagined as outside of the natural order and thus also beyond the realm of humanity, paradoxically, artificial concepts are simultaneously produced and constructed by human ideas and labor. The artificial
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Artificial Culture; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; An Artificial Introduction; Part I: Artificial Intelligence; 1. Early Artificial Intelligence Films: 'When are you going to let me out of this box?'; 2. 'I am a machine!': Artificial Intelligencesin Contemporary Cinema; Part II: Artificial Life; 3. From Digital Genesis to the Artificial Other; 4. Diasporic Subjectivities: Not Quite 'Beyond the Infinite'; Part III: Artificial space; 5. The Fortification of Place in the Digital Age; 6. Resistance Is Spatial; 7. The Infinite Plasticity of the Digital?
Description / Table of Contents:
Part IV: Artificial People8. Matrices of Embodiment; 9. The Symbiosis of Special Effects; Part V: Artificial Culture; 10. Before the Mourning; 11. Artificial Mourning:Spider-Man, Special Effects, and September 11; Artificial Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Available via World Wide Web
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