Uncanny Experiments in Cyborg Culture

Name: Uncanny Experiments in Cyborg Culture
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ISBN: 9781551521169

ISBN-10: 1551521164

ISBN-13: 9781551521169

Edition: 2001

Authors: Bruce Grenville, Vancouver Art Gallery Staff

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The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture is a dazzling and provocative examination of the cyborg #8211 the concept of man-as-machine #8211 in popular culture. The book collects essays and images, in colour and black-and-white, presenting the image of the cyborg in all its imaginative guises. The title is from a 1919 essay by Sigmund Freud (and included in the book), which deals with the sensation of "uncanniness" as being strange and familiar at the same time. The idea of the cyborg has been in existence for decades, and is one of the most persistent cultural images of the past century. The cyborg is a cypher #8211 an enigmatic image of figure that is human but not human, a machine but…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Publication date: 9/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.97" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


The Uneanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture



The Uneanny



Transgressed Boundaries, Potent Fusion and Dangerous Possibilities



Egoist Cyborgs



Joey: A Meehanieal Boy



Dead Eyes: a one-act play with two suburban Americans and three dead geniuses



A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Seience, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s



Looking Baek at Cyborgs



Warning: Sheborgs/Cyberfems Rupture Image-Stream!



Excerpt from Neuromancer



Neuromaneer: the uneanny as deeor



Japanimation and Techo-Orientalism



The Shock Projected onto the Other: Notes on Japanimation and Techno-Orientalism



Others in the Third Millennium



Welcoming the Libido of the Technoids Who Haunt the Junkyard of the Techno-Orient, or The Uneanny Experience of the Post-Techno-Orientalist Moment



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