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Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment

Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment

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Series: Digital Formations, Book 13

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ISBN10: 0820462047
ISBN13: 9780820462042
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Oct 3 2003
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.15 Depth: 8.91
Language: English
What does it mean to be embodied online? What are the conditions of cybersubjectivity? In Material Virtualities, Jenny Sundén explores the rarely acknowledged borderland between typists and textual bodies, speaking and writing, and physicality and imagination in online encounters. Through careful ethnographic investigations of a text-based virtual world called WaterMOO, Sundén shows how texts, bodies, and machines are linked together in ways that demand a new understanding of the writing subject. Drawing on contemporary feminist and queer theory, she questions the opposition between disembodied, high-tech masculinity and embodied, earth-bound femininity, insisting on the need for a radical materialization of cybercultural studies that discloses the virtual as itself embodied.

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