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Springer, Claudia. Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1996. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 0292776969
BibTeX citation key: Springer1996a
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Categories: General
Keywords: Body, Cyberpunk, Sexuality
Creators: Springer
Publisher: Univ. of Texas Press (Austin)
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Abstract
The love affair between humans and the machines that have made us faster and more powerful has expanded into cyberspace, where computer technology seems to offer both the promise of heightened erotic fulfillment and the threat of human obsolescence. In this pathfinding study, Claudia Springer explores the techno-erotic imagery in recent films, cyberpunk fiction, comic books, television, software, and writing on virtual reality and artificial intelligence to reveal how these futuristic images actually encode current debates concerning gender roles and sexuality.
Drawing on psychoanalytical and film theory, as well as the history of technology, Springer offers the first sustained analysis of eroticism and gender in such films as RoboCop, The Terminator, Eve of Destruction, and Lawnmower Man; cyberpunk books such as Neuromancer, Count Zero, Virtual Light, A Fire in the Sun, and Lady El; the comic books Cyberpunk and Interface, among others; and the television series Mann and Machine. Her analysis demonstrates that while new electronic technologies have inspired changes in some pop culture texts, others stubbornly recycle conventions from the past, refusing to come to terms with the new postmodern social order.
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