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This book investigates the multiple readings that arise when the division between the biological and technological is interrupted--here abjection is key because the binary between abjection and gadgetry gives multiple meanings to other binaries, including male/female. Using David Cronenberg's Videodrome and eXistenZ, I argue that multiple readings arise because of people's participation with electronically mediated technology. Indeed, abjection is salient because Cronenberg's films present an ambivalent relationship between people and technology; this relationship is often an uneasy one because technology changes people on both a somatic and cognitive level.

Book details

• Full title: ScienceFriction
• Subtitle: Of the Posthuman subject, Abjection, and the Breach in Mind/Body Dualism
• Author: John Perham
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172
• EAN: 9783659865053
• ID: 02995752
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Weight: 245 g
• Dimensions: 220 × 150 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. April 2016

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