Tama Leaver

Artificial Culture

Identity, Technology, and Bodies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 mapping our cultural understanding of the artificial simultaneously reveals a great deal about what it means to be human.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 146mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9781138851528
• ISBN-10: 1138851523
• Artikelnr.: 41479763

Autorenporträt

Tama Leaver is a lecturer in the Internet Studies department at Curtin University of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

An Artificial Introduction Part1: Artificial Intelligence 1. Early
Artificial Intelligence Films: 'When are you going to let me out of this
box? 2. "I am a machine!": Artificial Intelligences in Contemporary Cinema
Part 2: Artificial Life 3. From Digital Genesis to the Artificial Other 4.
Diasporic Subjectivities: Not Quite 'Beyond the Infinite' Part 3:
Artificial Space 5. The Fortification of Place in the Digital Age 6.
Resistance is Spatial 7. The Infinite Plasticity of the Digital? Part 4:
Artificial Culture 8. Matrices of Embodiment 9. The Symbiosis of Special
Effects Part 5: Artificial Culture 10. Before the Mourning 11. Artificial
Mourning: Spider-Man, Special Effects and September 11 Artificial
Conclusions