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The papers collected in this volume document the exchange and development of ideas that comprised the 5th Global Conference on Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction, hosted at Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, in July 2010. As in the past, the conference was driven by questions related to how cyberculture, cyberspace and science fiction can provide new insights into the nature of what it is to be human and the understanding of what it means for human beings to live in communities. In addition to these recurring themes, there is just as importantly a disposition that is shared by those participating in this volume. The authors, as well the writers, thinkers, and filmmakers they consider in their essays, demonstrate an intrepid and inquisitive approach that tests age-old questions within the rapidly expanding, but still vaguely-defined spaces that new technologies have afforded us. Moreover, in many ways, the conference and present volume reflect their subject, which has always been situated self-consciously and comfortably between the receding boundaries that have traditionally served both to delineate various academic disciplines and to distinguish real scholarship from popular discourse. Thus, as evidenced in the chapters of this volume, the conference benefited from the participation of delegates who represented a variety of fields, methodologies, and perspectives.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Jordan J. Copeland Part I Reconsidering Post-Human Concepts John Scalzi's Old Man's War Trilogy: A User's Guide to Post-Humanity Fabio Fernandes 'We walk amid crowds, ride, fly or fall with the hero': Avatars and Posthumanism Jenna Ng Reading the Body: Interpreting Three Dimensional Media as Narrative Jim Barrett Part II Issues of Immersion, Ethics and Identity The Ethical Experience in Controversial Videogames Daniel Riha Making Science Fiction Personal: Videogames and Inter-Affective Storytelling Kevin Veale Heterotopias of Genders in Digital Space: Gender Representations in Facebook Sophia Damianidou, Konstantina Vasiliki Iakovou and Katerina Zygoura Immersion and Surveillance in Virtual Worlds George J. Stein Part III Technology, Community and Anthropology Anthropological Reflections on Knowledge Interfaces: Swarm, Wikinomics and Design Michal Derda-Nowakowski Intelligent Shoes, Smart Teeth and Lunch with a Cyborg: Anthropological Reflections on the Change of Communication Paradigms Anna Maj Mission to Earth: Planetary Proprioception and the Cyber-Sublime Marc Barasch and Ksenia Fedorova Avatar: A Tale of Indigenous Survival? Dolores Miralles-Alberola Part IV Science Fiction and the Literatures of Cyberspace Loss of Connection: Science in Romanticism and Modern Science Fiction Susan Rose Nash Human Identity in the World of Altered Carbon Grzegorz Trebicki The Mind Body Problem through Science Fiction: Charles Stross and Richard Morgan in Philosophical Review Benjamin Manktelow Human Magic, Fairy Technology and the Place of the Supernatural in the Age of Cyberculture Anna Bugajska Part V The Future of Humanity in Film and Television Enemy Metaphors and the Countdown for Mankind in the American TV Series Space: Above and Beyond and Battlestar Galactica Petra Rehling Quest for Closure: Re-Visioning Humanity in Battlestar Galactica Dagmara Zajac Who's Your Saviour? The Changing Messiahs of Contemporary Science Fiction Film and TV Sofia Sjo Endgame: Mitchell and Webb's 'Remain Indoors' Sketch Series, Absurdist Comedy and the Collapse of Meaning in Apocalypse Narratives Ewan Kirkland

About the Author :
Jordan J. Copeland is Assistant Professor of Religion at La Salle University in Philadelphia. His research interests include virtue ethics, bioethics, philosophy of religion, and the examination of religious, philosophical and ethical questions within the context of popular culture.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781848880870
  • Publisher: Inter/Connexions
  • Publisher Imprint: Inter-Disciplinary Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • Sub Title: Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction
  • ISBN-10: 1848880871
  • Publisher Date: 30 Dec 2011
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Width: 148 mm


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