Posthumanity: Merger & Embodiment
Edited by Adam W. Ruch and Ewan Kirkland
ISBN: 978-1-84888-018-4
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Contents
Introduction
Adam W. Ruch and Ewan Kirkland
PART I Gender, Desire and Cyber Femininity
Desire Online: Private Articulations and Public Responses
Ruzy Suliza Hashim and Imran Ho-Abdullah
Kinky Politics in Cyberspace: Gender and Xenophobic Violence in South Africa
Naomi Nkealah
PART II History, Political Writing and Thought Control
Memory Erased: Effective Thought Control in Dystopia
Elsa Bouet
Contemporaneity of Historicity: Appropriation of Historical Identities in Malaysian Blogosphere
Noraini Md. Yusof and Ruzy Suliza Hashim
PART III Time & Place
Designing the Networked Environments: Architectural Visions of Cybercommunities
Lara Schrijver
PART IV Bodies & Identity
Body Coded in Motion
Elena Marcevska
PART V Merger & Embodiment
Bioinstincts
Laura Boffi
To Have Done with the Judgment of God: The New Flesh
Devrim Ülkebaş
PART VI Critical Philosophies
Linguophilosophy of Cyberspace through English Vocabulary Development
Rusudan Makhachashvili
Cyberphilosophy and the Nature of Personhood: An Information-processing Approach to the Notion of Anatta in Buddhist Philosophy
Arash Moussavi
PART VII The Literature of Cyberspace
Cyborg Hierarchies: Ecological Philosophy and Cyberculture in Marge Piercy’s Body of Glass
Jayne Glover
PART VIII Avatars, Humanity and Videogames
Game Noir Approach for 3-D Interactive Documentary
Daniel Riha
Aliens, Avatars and Andrew Ryan: Representations of Humanity in Science Fiction Games
Monica Evans
Remediation, Children’s Television and Dora the Explorer
Ewan Kirkland
Humanity and Digital Characters in Virtual Worlds: Crossing the Fictional Boundaries
Alexandre Monnin
PART IX Character-Community & Anthropology
Among the Spirits of Cyberspace: An Analysis of Shamanic Motifs in Neuromancer
Anelie Crighton
The Decline of Pseudonymity
Adam W. Ruch
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