The Cyborg : A Treatise on the Artificial Man / Antonio Caronia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caronia, Antonio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Cyborg

Place of Publication:

Luneburg : meson press, 2015.

Summary:

Born on the pages of science fiction comics in the 1920s and 30s, the cyborg lives in popular imagination. As hero of the cyberpunk epic, in its brief but intense history, the cyborg has followed and anticipated the rapport and conflict between man and machine. In the post-fordist era of digital networked media the cyborg unfolds itself in the dissemination of multiple bodies: on the Internet, in the shift of individual identity, in the new collective aggregation connected by software. It bridges virtuality and concreteness, possibility and necessity. The cyborg thus becomes a field of social conflict, one of the new figures in which the bio-political perspective is embodied.

Contents:

Preface to the English Edition

Tatiana Bazzichelli

Preface

PART ONE: THE DAWN OF THE MODERN HYBRID

Introduction

[ 1 ] Cosmographies

[2] Morphologies

[3] Bodies and Mechanisms

[4] Spectacle, Sex, Death

[5] Intelligent Machines

[6] The Price of Immortality

PART TWO: THE POST-FORDIST CYBORG

[7] Technology under the Skin

[8] From Electromagnetics to Genetics

[9] Cyborg Ecstasy

POSTSCRIPT

[10] From the Cyborg to the Posthuman.

Notes:

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