Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction

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Duke University Press, 1993 - Всего страниц: 404
Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identity--referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional "subject" and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer terminal or television screen--puts to rest any lingering doubts of the significance of science fiction in contemporary cultural studies. Demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge, both of the history of science fiction narrative from its earliest origins, and of cultural theory and philosophy, Bukatman redefines the nature of human identity in the Information Age.
Drawing on a wide range of contemporary theories of the postmodern--including Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway, and Jean Baudrillard--Bukatman begins with the proposition that Western culture is suffering a crisis brought on by advanced electronic technologies. Then in a series of chapters richly supported by analyses of literary texts, visual arts, film, video, television, comics, computer games, and graphics, Bukatman takes the reader on an odyssey that traces the postmodern subject from its current crisis, through its close encounters with technology, and finally to new self-recognition. This new "virtual subject," as Bukatman defines it, situates the human and the technological as coexistent, codependent, and mutally defining.
Synthesizing the most provocative theories of postmodern culture with a truly encyclopedic treatment of the relevant media, this volume sets a new standard in the study of science fiction--a category that itself may be redefined in light of this work. Bukatman not only offers the most detailed map to date of the intellectual terrain of postmodern technology studies--he arrives at new frontiers, providing a propitious launching point for further inquiries into the relationship of electronic technology and culture.

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INTRODUCTION 1
THE IMAGE ADDICT 32
THE IMAGE VIRUS 69
INTRODUCTIONELECTRONIC SPACE 103
CYBERSPACE
PARASPACE 157
NARRATIVE AND VIRTUAL REALITIES 185
FUN IN CYBERSPACE
A Tactics of Kinesis
Theres Always Tomorrowland 227
TERMINAL FLESH 241
CONTENTS
CYBORG ACCEPTANCE 321
CONCLUSION
Filmography 373
Index 397

Cyberspace CowboysKinetic Urban Subjects 204

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Scott Bukatman is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University. He is the author of Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction, published by Duke University Press.

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