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Virtual Futures: Cyberotics, Technology and Posthuman Pragmatism
Author(s): Eric Cassidy (Author), Joan Broadhurst Dixon (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: February 26, 1998
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 140 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415133807
- ISBN-13: 9780415133807
Book Description
Brings together cyberfeminism, postmodern fiction, computing culture, materialist philosophy and performance art to discuss and articulate the consequences of an increasingly synthetic, virtual and technological world.
Editorial Reviews
Review
""Virtual Futures' 'cyberotics' vividly carves out in big, thick 'drink me, eat me, use me' letters, the punk-rot psychosis of the information age. Here the dis-figured/re-figured body, skin, genitals, genders, saliva, tears, automobiles and out of pocket imaginations rub up against the (not-so-innocent) mutilation of postmodernism itself. As the cows go to slaughter, nothing is sacred in this acid-take-all revolution."
-Sue Golding, University of Greenwich
-Sue Golding, University of Greenwich
About the Author
Joan Broadhurst Dixon is a lecturer in Social and Cultural Theory at the University of Derby. She teaches a course on Post-Human Thought. Eric Cassidy is doing research on the relationship between Deleuze and Pynchon at Warwick University. He co-ordinated the Virual Futures 1994 and 1995 Conferences at Warwick University.
