Sex, machines and navels
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Sex, machines and navels

Fiction, fantasy and history in the future present

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Sex, machines and navels

Fiction, fantasy and history in the future present

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Available again in paperback, this study offers a rigorous critical re-reading of fictions of humanity, history, technology and postmodern culture.Taking psychoanalysis into cyberspace, the book develops an innovative theoretical perspective on the relationship between bodies and machines to offer a focused re-examination of notions of desire, metaphor, sexed identity and difference and the process of technological transformation.The book unravels one figure in a detailed, lucid and extensive revision of Lacanian psychoanalysis in association with postmodern theory, feminism and deconstruction. Problematising the easy conjunction of human bodies and inhuman technology, the navel opens into networks of desire, history, culture and machines. Linked to the unconscious, to jokes and dreams, navels appear on the bodies of replicants and in the technological matrix, a strange excess in a future imagined in terms of corporeal 'meat' or posthuman machine. Exploring the significance of this omphalic excess, the book closely examines postmodern and cyberpunk texts (by Thomas Pynchon, Graham Swift, Julian Barnes, William Gibson, Rudy Rucker) alongside detailed readings of contemporary cultural critics and theorists.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9781526185624
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Sex, machines and navels
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Chapter 1: Navels
  8. Chapter 2: Lacan's navel
  9. Chapter 3: Jokes and their relation to postmodern ism
  10. Chapter 4: History, holes and things
  11. Chapter 5: Of meat and the matrix
  12. Chapter 6: Romance of the machine
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index