Cyberspace/cyberbodies/cyberpunk : cultures of technological embodiment / edited by Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows. - 280 pages ; 24 cm. - Theory, culture & society. . - Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered). .

Cultures of Technological Embodiment: An Introduction -- Feedback and Cybernetics: Reimaging the Body in the Age of Cybernetics -- The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics -- The Design of Virtual Reality -- Postmodern Virtualities -- The Embodied Computer/User -- Rear-View Mirrorshades: The Recursive Generation of the Cyberbody -- Cyberspace and the World We Live In -- Descartes Goes to Hollywood: Mind, Body and Gender in Contemporary Cyborg Cinema -- Prosthetic Memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner -- Meat (or How to Kill Oedipus in Cyberspace) -- Beating the Meat/Surviving the Text, or How to Get Out of This Century Alive -- Forms of Technological Embodiment: Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture -- Cyber(body)parts: Prosthetic Consciousness -- Corpses, Animals, Machines and Mannequins: The Body and Cyberpunk -- Index.

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Human body--Social aspects.
Cybernetics--Social aspects
Virtual reality.
Information society.

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