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Description
This book takes the process of "reading the body" into the fields at the forefront of culture—the vast spaces mapped by science and technology—to show that the body in high-tech is as gendered as ever. From female body building to virtual reality, from cosmetic surgery to cyberpunk, from... read more
First Sentence
From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, published in 1818, to Maria, the robot in Metropolis (Lang, 1927), to Frankenhooker (a film released on video in 1989), the possibilities of human hybrids have fired our cultural imagination as the Western world has developed through the industrial revolution into the age of high technology (figure 4).
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Authors & Contributors
- Anne Marie Balsamo (Author)
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