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008			110808s2012 nyua b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780415899161 (hardback : acidfree paper)
020			_a0415899168 (hardback : acidfree paper)
020			_a9781138851528
041			_aEnglish
042			_apcc
082	0	0	_a306.4 _223 _bLEA
100	1		_aLeaver, Tama.
245	1	0	_aArtificial culture : _bidentity, technology and bodies / _cTama Leaver.
260			_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2012.
300			_axiv, 217 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
505			_t I Artificial Intelligence -- _t II Artificial Life -- _t III Artificial Space -- _t IV Artificial People -- _t V Artificial Culture --
520			_a"Artificial Culture" is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable relationship between people, our bodies, and technology at large. While the artificial is often imagined as outside of the natural order and thus also beyond the realm of humanity, paradoxically, artificial concepts are simultaneously produced and constructed by human ideas and labor. The artificial can thus act as a boundary point against which we as a culture can measure what it means to be human. Science fiction feature films and novels, and other related media, frequently and provocatively deploy ideas of the artificial in ways which the lines between people, our bodies, spaces and culture more broadly blur and, at times, dissolve. </P><P>Building on the rich foundational work on the figures of the cyborg and posthuman, this book situates the artificial in similar terms, but from a nevertheless distinctly different viewpoint. After examining ideas of the artificial as deployed in film, novels and other digital contexts, this study concludes that we are now part of an artificial culture entailing a matrix which, rather than separating minds and bodies, or humanity and the digital, reinforces the symbiotic connection between identities, bodies, and technologies.</P>"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aArtificial life.
650		0	_aArtificial intelligence. _94
650		0	_aVirtual reality.
650		0	_aPopular culture.
650		0	_aTechnology
650		0	_aScience
942			_2ddc _cBOOKS
490	0		_aRoutledge research in cultural and media studies ; _v37
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650		0	_xSocial aspects.
650		0	_xSocial aspects.
906			_a7 _bcbc _corignew _d1 _eecip _f20 _gy-gencatlg