This updated and thoroughly revised second edition of the best-selling The Cybercultures Reader, includes specially selected contemporary articles by key thinkers in the expanding field of cybercultures studies.
With general and thematic section introductions, a full bibliography and user guide, this latest edition is an indispensable resource for all those interested in living with and thinking about new technologies.
Illustrations xiii Notes on contributors xiv Acknowledgements xxii Introductions Cybercultures Reader: A Users Guide 1(12) David Bell The `Virtual Machine and New Becomings in Pre-Millennial Culture 13(12) Barbara Kennedy PART ONE Approaching cyberculture Introduction 25(4) David Bell Cyberspace: First Steps 29(16) Michael Benedikt An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality, Community, Identity 45(11) Shawn P. Wilbur Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on The Anthropology of Cyberculture 56(21) Arturo Escobar Cyberspace and The World We Live in 77(19) Kevin Robins Code Warriors: Bunkering in and Dumbing Down 96(16) Arthur Kroker Marilouise Kroker PART TWO popular cybercultures Introduction 107(5) Barbara Kennedy From Captain America to Wolverine: Cyborgs in Comic Books: Alternative Images of Cybernetic Heroes and Villains 112(12) Mark Oehlert Making Cyborgs, Making Humans: of Terminators and Blade Runners 124(14) Forest Pyle New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000 138(11) Vivian Sobchack Terminal Penetration 149(26) Scott Bukatman The Technophilic Body: on Technicity in William Gibsons Cyborg Culture 175(15) David Tomas Prosthetic Memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner 190(20) Alison Landsberg PART THREE cybersubcultures Introduction 205(5) David Bell Net Game Cameo 210(6) Deena Weinstein Michael A. Weinstein Estrogen Brigades and `Big Tits Threads: Media Fandom on-Line and off 216(14) Susan Clerc Stalking the UFO Meme 230(7) Richard Thieme Approaching The Radical Other: The Discursive Culture of Cyberhate 237(17) Susan Zickmund Hacking Away at The Counter-Culture 254(14) Andrew Ross Post-Human Unbounded: Artificial Evolution and High-Tech Subcultures 268(23) Tiziana Terranova PART FOUR cyberfeminisms Introduction 283(8) Barbara Kennedy A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in The Late Twentieth Century 291(34) Donna Haraway On The Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations 325(12) Sadie Plant Digital Rage 337(13) Claudia Springer Networking Women and GRRRLS With Information/Communication Technology: Surfing Tales of The World Wide Web 350(10) Nina Wakeford Fabulous Feminist Futures and The Lure of Cyberculture 360(14) Judith Squires New Sciences: Cybrog Feminism and The Methodology of The Oppressed 374(22) Chela Sandoval PART FIVE cybersexual Introduction 391(5) David Bell COMPU-Sex: Erotica For Cybernauts 396(7) Gareth Branwyn Cyberqueer 403(13) Nina Wakeford Queer Spaces, Modem Boys and Pagan Statues: Gay/Lesbian Identity and The Construction of Cyberspace 416(16) Randal Woodland Notes on Queer `N Asian Virtual Sex 432(7) Daniel Tsang `Trapped by The Body? Telepresence Technologies and Transgendered Performance in Feminist and Lesbian Rewritings of Cyberpunk Fiction 439(21) Thomas Foster Coming Across The Future 460(17) Sadie Plant PART SIX cyberbodies Introduction 471(6) Barbara Kennedy The Embodied Computer/User 477(12) Deborah Lupton The Virtual Body in Cyberspace 489(15) Anne Balsamo Will The Real Body Please Stand Up? Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures 504(25) Allucquere Rosanne Stone The Cyberpunk: The Individual As Reality Pilot 529(11) Timothy Leary Envisioning Cybrog Bodies: Notes From Current Research 540(20) Jennifer Gonzalez PART SEVEN post-(cyber)bodies Introduction 555(5) David Bell From Psycho-Body to Cyber-Systems: Images as Post-Human Entities 560(17) Stelarc Ritual Mechanics: Cybernetic Body Art 577(11) Mark Dery Transsexuality: The Postmodern Body And/as Technology 588(10) Susan Stryker Pain and Subjectivity in Virtual Reality 598(11) Diana Gromala Post-Bodies, Aging and Virtual Reality 609(10) Mike Featherstone The Visible Man: The Male Criminal Subject as Biomedical Norm 619(13) Lisa Cartwright PART EIGHT scaling cyberspaces Introduction 627(5) David Bell From Hestia to Home Page: Feminism and The Concept of Home in Cyberspace 632(12) Susan Leigh Star Community in The Abstract: A Political and Ethical Dilemma? 644(14) Michele Willson Virtual Urban Futures 658(18) Michael Ostwald Virtual Commonality: Looking For India on The Internet 676(26) Ananda Mitra PART NINE Cybercolonization Introduction 697(5) David Bell Border Crossings: The Internet and The Dislocation of Citizenship 702(10) Graham Barwell Kate Bowles Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on The Internet 712(9) Lisa Nakamura Cyberspace and The Globalization of Culture 721(11) Jon Stratton Alt.Civilizations.FAQ: Cyberspace as The Darker Side of The West 732(21) Ziauddin Sardar Index 753
