Fred Botting

Sex, machines and navels

Fiction, fantasy and history in the future present

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Produktbeschreibung

Taking psychoanalysis into cyberspace, Sex, machines and navels develops an innovative theoretical perspective on the relationship between bodies and machines to offer a focused re-examination of notions of desire, metaphor, sexed identity and difference and the process of technological transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780719056253
• ISBN-10: 071905625X
• Artikelnr.: 21196700

Autorenporträt

Fred Botting is Professor of English Literature and Executive member of London Graduate School, Kingston University

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Navels Navel-gazing The question of the navel 2.
Lacan's navel Psychoanalysis through the navel? The navel of the dream
Reading navels The navel's return 3. Jokes and their relation to
postmodernism The joke that is not one The navel of the joke Jokes and
their relation to the Other Postmodernism's navel Paternal metaphors? 4.
History, holes and things History's navel Natural history and the navel
Holes and things Wombs, texts, hystery Repetition, revolution, drive 5. Of
meat and the matrix Future history and the navel Plugging into the One
Other matrix, other meat Navel, image, screen 6. Romance of the machine
Navels in the machine Going nodal Bibliography Index