Material Virtualities : Approaching Online Textual Embodiment
by
Jenny Sunden
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Paperback / Softback
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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
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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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