Material virtualities

Autor*innen

• Jenny Sunde n.

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• 248 Seiten
• 9 Lesestunden

• Wissenschaftliche Theorien

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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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Einband: Paperback