Stone, Allucquère Rosanne,

The war of desire and technology at the close of the mechanical age / Allucquère Rosanne Stone. - x, 212 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212).

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sex, Death, and Machinery, or How I Fell in Love with My Prosthesis -- Collective Structures -- Risking Themselves: Identity in Oshkosh -- In Novel Conditions: The Cross-Dressing Psychiatrist -- Reinvention and Encounter: Pause for Theory -- Agency and Proximity: Communities/CommuniTrees -- The End of Innocence, Part I: Cyberdammerung at the Atari Lab -- The End of Innocence, Part II: Cyberdammerung at Wellspring Systems -- Conclusion: The Gaze of the Vampire -- Notes -- Bibliography. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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Computers and civilization
Virtual reality.
Information technology.

QA76.9.C66 / S883 1995

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