Asembliranje tijela u cyber-prostoru: Tehnologije, tijela i spolna razlika
Assembling Bodies in Cyberspace: Technologies, Bodies, and Sexual Difference

Summary/Abstract: Essay “Assembling Bodies in Cyberspace: Technologies, Bodies, and Sexual Difference” is cautionary about the “out of body” rhetoric used in narrative of virtual reality. By examining examines technologies and ideologies of techno-bodies, it investigates how ultimately counterproductive transformational claims being made by a range of feminists for cyberspace are, especially ones that emphasize the mind/body split. Tracking the formulations of technology and woman as they are articulated through the operations of a particular epistemological structure – the logic of identity and the associated structure of binary opposition - across the field of transformational discourses of cyberspace, it explores how this logic gives rise to particular understanding of technologies and the modes of engagement with them that are often ultimately counterproductive to he transformational claims for cyberspace being made by a range of feminists. Finally, it looks beyond the Cartesian model and indicates an alternative mode of thinking technologies drawn from Deleuze and Guattari which effects a conceptual shift that counters this problematic logic of identity.

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