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Cy-Borges
. Ed(S): Callus, Ivan; Herbrechter, Stefan
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Description for Cy-Borges
Hardback. Editor(s): Callus, Ivan; Herbrechter, Stefan. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
Cy-Borges—this compound word seems almost destined. It allows the associations of cyber—and cyborg to converge around the name of Jorge Luis Borges, many of whose writings are strangely prescient thought-experiments in the impossible and the unconfigurable. For though Borges speaks scantily of technology and hardly at all of the cyber-cultural futures that make it possible, his speculative fictions and other prose writings contrive glimpses of posthuman conditions that are more typically associated with writers like William Gibson and Philip K. Dick or films like Blade Runner and The Matrix. Yet the posthuman, as that which reconfigures the actual and the ... Read more
Cy-Borges—this compound word seems almost destined. It allows the associations of cyber—and cyborg to converge around the name of Jorge Luis Borges, many of whose writings are strangely prescient thought-experiments in the impossible and the unconfigurable. For though Borges speaks scantily of technology and hardly at all of the cyber-cultural futures that make it possible, his speculative fictions and other prose writings contrive glimpses of posthuman conditions that are more typically associated with writers like William Gibson and Philip K. Dick or films like Blade Runner and The Matrix. Yet the posthuman, as that which reconfigures the actual and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611483109
SKU
V9781611483109
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About . Ed(S): Callus, Ivan; Herbrechter, Stefan
Stefan Herbrechter is professor of English and cultural studies at the University of Heidelberg and research fellow at Leeds Trinity and All Saints College (UK). Ivan Callus is senior lecturer and head of the Department of English at the University of Malta.
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