Artificial Culture Identity Technology and Bodies Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies 1st Edition by Tama Leaver ISBN 978-0415899161 0415899168

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ISBN 10:  0415899168

ISBN 13:  978-0415899161

Author: Tama Leaver 

Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of “the artificial” in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable relationship between people, our bodies, and technology at large. While the artificial is often imagined as outside of the natural order and thus also beyond the realm of humanity, paradoxically, artificial concepts are simultaneously produced and constructed by human ideas and labor. The artificial can thus act as a boundary point against which we as a culture can measure what it means to be human. Science fiction feature films and novels, and other related media, frequently and provocatively deploy ideas of the artificial in ways which the lines between people, our bodies, spaces and culture more broadly blur and, at times, dissolve.

Table of contents: 

An Artificial Introduction

Part 1: Artificial Intelligence

1. Early Artificial Intelligence Films: “When are you going to let me out of this box?”

2. “I am a machine!”: Artificial Intelligences in Contemporary Cinema

Part 2: Artificial Life
3. From Digital Genesis to the Artificial Other
4. Diasporic Subjectivities: Not Quite “Beyond the Infinite”

Part 3: Artificial Space
5. The Fortification of Place in the Digital Age
6. Resistance is Spatial
7. The Infinite Plasticity of the Digital?

Part 4: Artificial Culture
8. Matrices of Embodiment
9. The Symbiosis of Special Effects

Part 5: Artificial Mourning
10. Before the Mourning
11. Artificial Mourning: Spider-Man, Special Effects and September 11

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