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Cyborg Subject, The: Reality, Consciousness, Parallax 1st ed. 2016


Cyborg Subject, The: Reality, Consciousness, Parallax 1st ed. 2016

Hardback by Benjamin, Garfield

Cyborg Subject, The: Reality, Consciousness, Parallax

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ISBN:
9781137584489
Publication Date:
8 Jul 2016
Edition/language:
1st ed. 2016 / English
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages:
232 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 23 - 28 May 2024
Cyborg Subject, The: Reality, Consciousness, Parallax

Description

This book outlines a new conception of the cyborg in terms of consciousness as the parallax gap between physical and digital worlds. The contemporary subject constructs its own internal reality in the interplay of the Virtual and the Real. Reinterpreting the work of Slavoj Žižek and Gilles Deleuze in terms of the psychological and ontological construction of the digital, alongside the philosophy of quantum physics, this book offers a challenge to materialist perspectives in the fluid cyberspace that is ever permeating our lives. The inclusion of the subject in its own epistemological framework establishes a model for an engaged spectatorship of reality. Through the analysis of online media, digital art, avatars, computer games and science fiction, a new model of cyborg culture reveals the opportunities for critical and creative interventions in the contemporary subjective experience, promoting an awareness of the parallax position we all occupy between physical and digital worlds.

Contents

Introduction.- 1.The Cyborg Subject: An Introduction.- 2.The Open Subject: Media(Tion) Between Worlds.- 3.The Empty Subject: Void-In-Itself.- 4.The Absent Subject: Objet A-Vatar.- 5.The Undead Subject: Virtual Monsters.- 6.The Impossible Subject: Cyborg Future.

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