ISBN:
0816619301
,
0816619328
,
9780816619320
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 327 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cultural politics v. 3
Parallel Title:
Print version Technoculture
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Communication and culture
;
Technology Social aspects
Abstract:
The contributors provide a realistic assessment of the politics-the dangers and possibilities-currently at stake in cultural practices touched by advanced technology, while suggesting new and timely possibilities for those concerned with the pressing need for technoliteracy
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Cyborgs at Large: Interview with Donna Haraway; The Actors Are Cyborg, Nature Is Coyote, and the Geography Is Elsewhere: Postscript to "Cyborgs at Large"; Containing Women: Reproductive Discourse in the 1980s; How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: The Evolution of AIDS Treatment Activism; Hacking Away at the Counterculture; Brownian Motion: Women, Tactics, and Technology; "Penguin in Bondage": A Graphic Tale of Japanese Comic Books; Hybridity, the Rap Race, and Pedagogy for the 1990s; Watch Out, Dick Tracy! Popular Video in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez
Description / Table of Contents:
Just the Facts, Ma'am: An AutobiographyUnderstanding Mega-Events: If We Are the World, Then How Do We Change It?; Black Box S-Thetix: Labor, Research, and Survival in the He[Art] of the Beast; The Lessons of Cyberpunk; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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