Artificial Culture

Artificial Culture

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Leaver Tama
Taylor & Francis Ltd
EAN: 9780415899161
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Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable relationship between people, our bodies, and technology at large. While the artificial is often imagined as outside of the natural order and thus also beyond the realm of humanity, paradoxically, artificial concepts are simultaneously produced and constructed by human ideas and labor. The artificial can thus act as a boundary point against which we as a culture can measure what it means to be human. Science fiction feature films and novels, and other related media, frequently and provocatively deploy ideas of the artificial in ways which the lines between people, our bodies, spaces and culture more broadly blur and, at times, dissolve.

Building on the rich foundational work on the figures of the cyborg and posthuman, this book situates the artificial in similar terms, but from a nevertheless distinctly different viewpoint. After examining ideas of the artificial as deployed in film, novels and other digital contexts, this study concludes that we are now part of an artificial culture entailing a matrix which, rather than separating minds and bodies, or humanity and the digital, reinforces the symbiotic connection between identities, bodies, and technologies.

EAN 9780415899161
ISBN 0415899168
Typ produktu Pevná vazba
Vydavatel Taylor & Francis Ltd
Datum vydání 22. prosince 2011
Stránky 232
Jazyk English
Rozměry 229 x 152
Země United Kingdom
Sekce Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Autoři Leaver Tama
Ilustrace 17 Halftones, black and white; 17 Illustrations, black and white
Série Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies