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9780719056253

Sex, machines and navels Fiction, fantasy and history in the future present

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  • ISBN13:

    9780719056253

  • ISBN10:

    071905625X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2015-05-01
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press

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Summary

Sex, Machines and Navelsoffers a rigorous critical re-reading of fictions of humanity, history, technology and postmodern culture. Taking psychoanalysis into cyberspace, the book develops an innovative theoretical perspective on the relationship between bodies and machines to offer a focused re-examination of notions of desire, metaphor, sexed identity and difference and the process of technological transformation. The book unravels one figure in a detailed, lucid and extensive revision of Lacanian psychoanalysis in association with postmodern theory, feminism and deconstruction. Problematizing the easy conjunction of human bodies and inhuman technology, the navel opens onto networks of desire, history, culture and machines. Linked to the unconscious, to jokes and dreams, navels appear on the bodies of replicants and in the technological matrix, a strange excess in a future imagined in terms of corporeal "meat" or posthuman machine. The book closely examines postmodern and cyberpunk texts (by Thomas Pynchon, Graham Swift, Julian Barnes, William Gibson, Rudy Rucker) alongside detailed readings of contemporary cultural critics and theorists.

Author Biography

Fred Botting works in the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University.

Table of Contents

Navels? * Lacan's Navel * Jokes and their Relation to Postmodernism * History, Holes and Things * Of Meat and the Matrix * Romance of the Machine

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