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Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures

Allucquère Rosanne Stone

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Description:In this essay, Stone discusses how the politics and the social economy of bodies in 'consensual loci' have changed historically with the technological innovations of virtual space. She narrates through diverse beginnings of communications from the early BBS systems of the CommuniTree Group (1978), DARPA military simulators like SIMNET, the Autodesk Cyberspace Project, Gibson's publication of Neuromancer, to the Human Interface Technology Laboratory at the University of Washington. Categorizing this history of virtual spaces into four distinct epochs of communications technology, Stone emphasizes how social relations become increasingly abstract, identities more complex, agency untethered from warranting, and the mind detached from the body. In her discussion of the contemporary period, Stone provides an anthropological analysis of phone sex workers and VR engineers. In a comparison between VR reality hackers and cinematic spectators, Stone extends filmic desire to coin the term 'cyborg envy,' which has been reiterated as a central concept in other essays of 'cyborg anthropology.' In short, this essay qualifies the epistemic translation from bourgeois modernity to the virtual world, and characterizes the new technosocial individual and the virtual communities as political strategies for survival. In her conclusion, Stone nevertheless reaffirms the 'situated biological body,' noting the importance of Judith Butler and Gloria Anzaldua's respective analyses of the female and Mestiza bodies. "Even in the age of the technosocial subject, life is lived through bodies." L.E. FazenWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures. To get started finding Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 1991

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Description: In this essay, Stone discusses how the politics and the social economy of bodies in 'consensual loci' have changed historically with the technological innovations of virtual space. She narrates through diverse beginnings of communications from the early BBS systems of the CommuniTree Group (1978), DARPA military simulators like SIMNET, the Autodesk Cyberspace Project, Gibson's publication of Neuromancer, to the Human Interface Technology Laboratory at the University of Washington. Categorizing this history of virtual spaces into four distinct epochs of communications technology, Stone emphasizes how social relations become increasingly abstract, identities more complex, agency untethered from warranting, and the mind detached from the body. In her discussion of the contemporary period, Stone provides an anthropological analysis of phone sex workers and VR engineers. In a comparison between VR reality hackers and cinematic spectators, Stone extends filmic desire to coin the term 'cyborg envy,' which has been reiterated as a central concept in other essays of 'cyborg anthropology.' In short, this essay qualifies the epistemic translation from bourgeois modernity to the virtual world, and characterizes the new technosocial individual and the virtual communities as political strategies for survival. In her conclusion, Stone nevertheless reaffirms the 'situated biological body,' noting the importance of Judith Butler and Gloria Anzaldua's respective analyses of the female and Mestiza bodies. "Even in the age of the technosocial subject, life is lived through bodies." L.E. FazenWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures. To get started finding Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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