(I'm going to review this later - Alan)
( URLs/DVDs/CDroms/books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt ) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:00:57 -0500 From: Stacy Zellmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cybermind/THE SOULS OF CYBERFOLK: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory Considers the construction of race, gender, and sexuality in virtual reality. THE SOULS OF CYBERFOLK: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory Thomas Foster University of Minnesota Press | 392 pages | 2005 ISBN 0-8166-3405-X | hardcover | $74.95 ISBN 0-8166-3406-8 | paperback | $24.95 Electronic Mediations Series, volume 13 Thomas Foster traces the transformation of cyberpunk from a literary movement into a multimedia cultural phenomenon. He examines how cyberpunk defined a framework for thinking about the cultural implications of new technologies�a framework flexible enough to incorporate issues of gender, queer sexualities, and ethnic and racial differences as well as developments in nationalist models of citizenship and global economic flows. Beginning with William Gibson's paradigmatic text Neuromancer and continuing through the works of Maureen McHugh, Melissa Scott, Neal Stephenson, Greg Egan, and Ken MacLeod, Foster measures cyberpunk's reach into social and philosophical movements, commercial art, comic books, film, and music video. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/F/foster_souls.html For more information on the Electronic Mediations Series: http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/electronic.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html
