Going Native
Cyberculture and Postcolonialism
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 31. December 2050
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-415-96710-5 (ISBN)
Description
Going Native is the first sustained postcolonial critique of cyberculture and its role in globalization. The co-authors provide an incisive analysis of the emerging global system of "informational capitalism," focusing largely on the role that fantasies about the unwired world play in efforts to universalize digital culture. The authors write with a Zizekian flair across the whole terrain of global cyberculture, from mappings of cyberspace, to media representations of "wiring the world" (from Wired to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue), to tropes of cleanliness and dirtiness in digital discourse about the First and Third World in order to bring to light connections between the Internet, global capitalism, and its predecessor, colonialism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-96710-5 (9780415967105)
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Persons
Terry Harpold is Assistant Professor of English, Film, and Media Studies at the University of Florida. He is currently working on a book-length project on psychoanalytic theory and digital culture. Kavita Philip is assistant professor of Cultural Studies of Science in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her forthcoming book, Civilizing Natures, analyzes ideologies of "nature" in nineteenth-century India.