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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cavallaro, Dani. Cyberpunk and cyberculture. London ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Athlone Press ; Somerset, N.J. : Distributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers, 2000 (OCoLC)605506930 Online version: Cavallaro, Dani. Cyberpunk and cyberculture. London ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Athlone Press ; Somerset, N.J. : Distributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers, 2000 (OCoLC)606256268 |
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| Named Person: | William Gibson; William Gibson, Schriftsteller 1948-; William Gibson; William Gibson |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dani Cavallaro |
| ISBN: | 0485004127 9780485004120 0485006073 9780485006070 |
| OCLC Number: | 43751735 |
| Description: | xxi, 258 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- A brief guide to the book Introduction: Science fiction and cyberpunk -- 1 Cyberpunk and virtual technologies -- 2 Cyberpunk, technology and mythology Technology and mythology: origins Cyborgs -- Myth and religion in cyberpunk Fiction, theory and the language of science -- 3 Cyberpunk and the body The cyberbody Idoru: the body as personality construct The ghost The stranger Burning Chrome and Mona Lisa Overdrive: the body as commodity The doll -- 4 Cyberpunk, gender and sexuality Technologies of the gendered subject Gender roles in cyberpunk Virtual sex -- 5 Cyberpunk and the city Science and space Digital maps: ON/OFF -- Venice -- Space and narrative structure -- 6 Cyberpunk and the Gothic -- The uncanny Layering and architecture Families Fashion -- Time zones Epilogue: Cyberpunk and memory. |
| Responsibility: | Dani Cavallaro. |
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Abstract:
This text explores the work of a wide range of writers, setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema and contemporary work on the culture of technology.
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