WAR OF DESIRE & TECHNOLOGY AT CLOSE OF MECHANICAL AGE

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• ISBN13: 9780262193627
• ISBN10: 0262193620
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: MIT

Summary

Not a traditional text but rather a series of intellectual provocations, this book moves between fascinating accounts of the modern interface of technology and desire--from busy cyberlabs to the electronic solitude of the Internet, from phone sex to "virtual cross-dressers". Stone examines the myriad ways modern technology is challenging traditional notions of gender identity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sex, Death, and Machinery, or How I Fell in Love with My Prosthesis	p. 1
Collective Structures	p. 33
Risking Themselves: Identity in Oshkosh	p. 45
In Novel Conditions: The Cross-Dressing Psychiatrist	p. 65
Reinvention and Encounter: Pause for Theory	p. 83
Agency and Proximity: Communities/CommuniTrees	p. 99
The End of Innocence, Part I: Cyberdammerung at the Atari Lab	p. 123
The End of Innocence, Part II: Cyberdammerung at Wellspring Systems	p. 157
Conclusion: The Gaze of the Vampire	p. 165
Notes	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 201
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