The cyborg: a treatise on the artificial man
Item
Title
The cyborg: a treatise on the artificial man
Creator
Caronia, Antonio
Date
2015
Publisher
meson press
Description
Born on the pages of science fiction comics in the 1920s and 30s, the cyborg lives in popular imagination. As hero of the cyberpunk epic, in its brief but intense history, the cyborg has followed and anticipated the rapport and conflict between man and machine. In the post-fordist era of digital networked media the cyborg unfolds itself in the dissemination of multiple bodies: on the Internet, in the shift of individual identity, in the new collective aggregation connected by software. It bridges virtuality and concreteness, possibility and necessity. The cyborg thus becomes a field of social conflict, one of the new figures in which the bio-political perspective is embodied.
Subject
Media and communication
Language
English
isbn
9783957960108 (print)
9783957960115 (online)
