Terminal Identity

by Bukatman, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780822313403
• ISBN10: 0822313405
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"This book should appeal to . . . anyone in the humanities disciplines working within the discourses of postmodernism. The scholarship is absolutely superior."--Vivian Sobchack, author of "Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Terminal Image	p. 23
Introduction	p. 25
The Image Addict	p. 32
The Society of the Spectacle	p. 35
Cut-ups and White Noise	p. 38
J. G. Ballard and the Mediascape	p. 41
The Man Who Fell to Earth - Loving the Alien	p. 46
The Schizoculture of Philip K. Dick	p. 48
Superheroes for a New Era	p. 55
American Flagg! and Nam June Paik	p. 55
Max Headroom - 20 Minutes into the Future	p. 63
The Image Virus	p. 69
The Electronic Nervous System	p. 70
The Electronic Virus	p. 72
William Burroughs, the Nova Mob, and the Silence Virus	p. 74
Burroughs and Cronenberg - Word and Body	p. 78
Videodrome	p. 85
Ubik and the Reality Fix	p. 93
Videodrome - The Death of Representation	p. 97
Terminal Space	p. 101
Introduction - Electronic Space	p. 103
Cyberspace	p. 119
The Cybernetic (City) State	p. 121
Blade Runner and Fractal Geography	p. 130
Cyberpunk	p. 137
Neuromancer	p. 146
The Production of Cyberspace	p. 154
Paraspace	p. 157
The Paraspaces of Science Fiction	p. 157
Worlds in Collision	p. 161
Urban Zones and Cyber Zones	p. 165
Return to Paraspace (Into the Quanta)	p. 172
The SF Text as Paraspace	p. 174
Coda - Baudrillard in the Zone	p. 180
Terminal Penetration	p. 183
Narrative and Virtual Realities	p. 185
Fun in Cyberspace	p. 196
Jacking in	p. 201
"True Names"	p. 201
Cyberspace Cowboys - Kinetic Urban Subjects	p. 204
Cyberspace and the Omnipotence of Thoughts	p. 208
A Tactics of Kinesis	p. 210
TRON - Cinema in Cyberspace	p. 215
There's Always . . . Tomorrowland	p. 227
Terminal Flesh	p. 241
Introduction	p. 243
Lifestyles of the Electronically Enhanced	p. 247
The Persistence of Memory	p. 248
Cyberpunks with a Plan	p. 250
Terminal Cyborgs	p. 251
Into the Plasma Pool	p. 259
The Extrusion of the Flesh	p. 259
Alien	p. 262
The Fly	p. 267
Blood Music	p. 268
Schismatrix - Living in the Posthuman Solar System	p. 272
Bataille and the New Flesh	p. 278
Cosmic Continuity	p. 279
Panic Subjects in the Machine Civilization	p. 284
Buttonheads, Wireheads, and Charge Addicts	p. 284
Antibodies	p. 286
Boys' Toys from Hell	p. 288
Crash	p. 291
Limbo	p. 293
Techno-Surrealism	p. 295
Terminal Resistance/Cyborg Acceptance	p. 299
Terminal Resistance	p. 301
The Armored Body (and the Armored Arnold)	p. 301
Feminist Resistance and a Romance Novel for Cyborgs	p. 311
Cyborg Acceptance	p. 321
The End of Eden	p. 321
The Body without Organs	p. 325
Conclusion	p. 328
Notes	p. 331
Filmography	p. 373
Bibliography	p. 375
Index	p. 397
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