Material Virtualities : Approaching Online Textual Embodiment

Name: Material Virtualities
Brand: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
SKU: 9780820462042
Price: 4350 KES
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ISBN: 9780820462042

by Jenny Sunden

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Digital Formations

ISBN-10 0820462047

ISBN-13 9780820462042

Publisher Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 3rd, 2003

Print length 225 Pages

Weight 338 grams

Dimensions 15.40 x 22.80 x 1.60 cms

Product Classification: For vocational / professional education / training For adult education Society and culture: general Society & culture: general

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What does it mean to be embodied online? What are the conditions of cybersubjectivity? In Material Virtualities, Jenny Sundén explores the rarely acknowledged borderland between typists and textual bodies, speaking and writing, and physicality and imagination in online encounters. Through careful ethnographic investigations of a text-based virtual world called WaterMOO, Sundén shows how texts, bodies, and machines are linked together in ways that demand a new understanding of the writing subject. Drawing on contemporary feminist and queer theory, she questions the opposition between disembodied, high-tech masculinity and embodied, earth-bound femininity, insisting on the need for a radical materialization of cybercultural studies that discloses the «virtual» as itself embodied.

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