Electronic Eros / Edition 1

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Overview

The love affair between humans and the machines that have made us faster and more powerful has expanded into cyberspace, where computer technology seems to offer both the promise of heightened erotic fulfillment and the threat of human obsolescence. In this pathfinding study, Claudia Springer explores the techno-erotic imagery in recent films, cyberpunk fiction, comic books, television, software, and writing on virtual reality and artificial intelligence to reveal how these futuristic images actually encode current debates concerning gender roles and sexuality.
Drawing on psychoanalytical and film theory, as well as the history of technology, Springer offers the first sustained analysis of eroticism and gender in such films as RoboCop, The Terminator, Eve of Destruction, and Lawnmower Man; cyberpunk books such as Neuromancer, Count Zero, Virtual Light, A Fire in the Sun, and Lady El; the comic books Cyberpunk and Interface, among others; and the television series Mann and Machine. Her analysis demonstrates that while new electronic technologies have inspired changes in some pop culture texts, others stubbornly recycle conventions from the past, refusing to come to terms with the new postmodern social order.
Written to be accessible and entertaining for students and general readers as well as scholars, Electronic Eros will be of interest to a wide interdisciplinary audience.
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Social scientists choose sides, usually one emphasizing women's equality and the other emphasizing women's special needs, and trade views on procreation and female oppression, culture, welfare, Marxism and women's history, Foucault and sexuality, and Freud and repressed memory. Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's wartime writings and the male's search for a new identity remain unchallenged. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780292776975
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publication date: 1/1/1996
  • Edition description: 1st ed
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 196
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.45 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Techno-Eroticism 3
Ch. 1 Deleting the Body 16
Ch. 2 The Pleasure of the Interface 50
Ch. 3 Virtual Sex 80
Ch. 4 Muscular Circuitry 95
Ch. 5 Digital Rage 125
Ch. 6 Men and Machine-Women 146
Notes 162
Index 174
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