Virtual geographies : cyberpunk at the intersection of the postmodern and science fiction / Sabine Heuser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heuser, Sabine, author.

Series:

Sussex studies in culture and communication.

Sussex studies in culture and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyberpunk fiction--History and criticism.

Cyberpunk fiction.

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Cyberpunk culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York, New York : Rodopi, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how htese, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity.Virtual Geographies explores how new communication technologies are being used to produce new geographies and new types of space. Leading contributors from a wide range of disciplines including geography, sociology, philosophy and literatur

Contents:

Cover; Virtual Geographies; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; PART I Embedding the virtual; 2 Toward the light 'within': optical technologies, spatial metaphors and changing subjectivities; 3 The telephone: its social shaping and public negotiation in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century London; 4 Consumers or workers?: restructuring telecommunications in Aotearoa/New Zealand; 5 Transnationalism, technoscience and difference: the analysis of material-semiotic practices

6 The convergence of virtual and actual in the Global Matrix: artificial life, geo-economics and psychogeographyPART II Cyberscapes; 7 From city space to cyberspace; 8 Geographies of surveillant simulation; 9 Rural telematics: The Information Society and rural development; 10 Internauts and guerrilleros: the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico and its extension into cyberspace; 11 Gender and the landscapes of computing in an Internet café; PART III Thinking and writing the virtual; 12 The virtual realities of technology and fiction: reading William Gibson's cyberspace

13 On boundfulness: the space of hypertext bodies14 Unthinkable complexity? Cyberspace otherwise; 15 Virtual worlds: simulation, suppletion, s(ed)uction and simulacra; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-134-70374-0

90-420-0986-1

0-203-16942-5

0-203-28590-5

1-280-32619-0

1-134-70375-9

9786610326198

9780203169421

OCLC:

74492802