The souls of cyberfolk
Subtitle: posthumanism as vernacular theory
By: Thomas Foster.
Series: Electronic mediations ;; v. 13
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Science fiction, American -- History and criticism; Cybernetics in literature; Literature and technology -- United States; Technology in literature; Cyborgs in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cyberpunk's posthuman afterlife; title: The legacies of cyberpunk fiction : new cultural formations and the emergence of the posthuman; title: Meat puppets or robopaths : the question of (dis)embodiment in neuromancer; title: The sex appeal of the inorganic : posthuman narratives and constructions of desire; title: Trapped by the body : telepresence technologies and transgendered performance; title: The souls of cyberfolk : performativity, virtual embodiment, and racial histories; title: Replaying the L.A. riots : cyborg narratives and national traumas; title: Franchise nationalisms : globalization, consumer culture, and new ethnicities; title: The antinomies of posthuman thought.