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The cyborg: a treatise on the artificial man
Il Cyborg: saggio sull'uomo artificiale
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Abstract Born on the pages of science fiction comics in the 1920s and 30s, the cyborg lives in popular imagination. As hero of the cyberpunk epic, in its brief but intense history, the cyborg has followed and anticipated the rapport and conflict between man and machine. In the post-fordist era of digital net... view more
Born on the pages of science fiction comics in the 1920s and 30s, the cyborg lives in popular imagination. As hero of the cyberpunk epic, in its brief but intense history, the cyborg has followed and anticipated the rapport and conflict between man and machine. In the post-fordist era of digital networked media the cyborg unfolds itself in the dissemination of multiple bodies: on the Internet, in the shift of individual identity, in the new collective aggregation connected by software. It bridges virtuality and concreteness, possibility and necessity. The cyborg thus becomes a field of social conflict, one of the new figures in which the bio-political perspective is embodied.... view less
Keywords
human being; engineering; body; man-machine system; science fiction; artificial intelligence; virtual reality; hybridity; postmodernism
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free Keywords
Cyberculture
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Publisher
meson press
City
Lüneburg
Page/Pages
170 p.
ISBN
978-3-95796-011-5
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works