| Description |
x, 212 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Sex, death, and machinery, or how I fell in love with my prosthesis -- 1. Collective structures -- 2. Risking themselves: Identity in Oshkosh -- 3. In Novel conditions: The cross-dressing psychiatrist -- 4. Reinvention and encounter: Pause for theory -- 5. Agency and proximity: Communities/CommuniTrees -- 6. The end of innocence, Part I: Cyberdämmerung at the Atari Lab -- 7. The end of innocence, Part II: Cyberdämmerung at Wellspring systems -- 8. Conclusion: The gaze of the vampire |
| Summary |
Allucquere Rosanne Stone examines the interface of technology and desire: from busy cyberlabs to the electronic solitude of the Internet, from "virtual cross-dressers" to the trial of a man having raped a woman by seducing one of her multiple personalities. Writing eloquently of creating a "text that breaks rules," Stone employs elements from a wide range of disciplines and genres, including cultural and critical theory, social sciences, pulp journalism, science fiction, and personal memoir |
| Analysis |
Society Effects of Computers |
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Society Effects of Computers |
| Notes |
Spine title: The war of desire and technology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) |
| Subject |
Computers and civilization.
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Information technology.
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Virtual reality.
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| LC no. |
95017286 |
| ISBN |
0262193620 |
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9780262193627 |
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