Sex, Machines and Navels (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2015-04-01
Förlag
Manchester University Press
Illustrationer
bibliography, index
Dimensioner
220 x 140 x 20 mm
Vikt
340 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
22:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780719056253

Sex, Machines and Navels

Fiction, Fantasy and History in the Future Present

av Fred Botting
Häftad,  Engelska, 2015-04-01
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Available again in paperback, this study offers a rigorous critical re-reading of fictions of humanity, history, technology and postmodern culture. Taking psychoanalysis into cyberspace, the book develops an innovative theoretical perspective on the relationship between bodies and machines to offer a focused re-examination of notions of desire, metaphor, sexed identity and difference and the process of technological transformation. The book unravels one figure in a detailed, lucid and extensive revision of Lacanian psychoanalysis in association with postmodern theory, feminism and deconstruction. Problematising the easy conjunction of human bodies and inhuman technology, the navel opens into networks of desire, history, culture and machines. Linked to the unconscious, to jokes and dreams, navels appear on the bodies of replicants and in the technological matrix, a strange excess in a future imagined in terms of corporeal meat or posthuman machine. Exploring the significance of this omphalic excess, the book closely examines postmodern and cyberpunk texts (by Thomas Pynchon, Graham Swift, Julian Barnes, William Gibson, Rudy Rucker) alongside detailed readings of contemporary cultural critics and theorists. -- .
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Fred Botting is Professor of English Literature and Executive member of London Graduate School, Kingston University -- .

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements 1. Navels Navel-gazing The question of the navel 2. Lacans navel Psychoanalysis through the navel? The navel of the dream Reading navels The navels return 3. Jokes and their relation to postmodernism The joke that is not one The navel of the joke Jokes and their relation to the Other Postmodernisms navel Paternal metaphors? 4. History, holes and things Historys navel Natural history and the navel Holes and things Wombs, texts, hystery Repetition, revolution, drive 5. Of meat and the matrix Future history and the navel Plugging into the One Other matrix, other meat Navel, image, screen 6. Romance of the machine Navels in the machine Going nodal Bibliography Index -- .

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