Just got this note form the author - looks like an interesting book. Anybody wants to review it for Extropy Online?
>Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:06:12 +0100 (BST)
>From: AJ GORDO-LOPEZ <A.J.Gordo-lopez@Bradford.ac.uk>
>To: Alexander Chislenko <sasha1@netcom.com>
>Subject: Re: EFF cyberanthropology archive
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>Angel Juan Gordo Lopez
>Departamento de Sociologia IV
>Universidad Complutense de Madrid
>Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociologia, Despacho 3320
>Campus de Somosaguas
>28223 Madrid (Spain)
>
>Tel. 91-3942799 (w) / 91-7755063 (h)
>E-mail: ajgordol@cps.ucm.es
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>CYBERPSYCHOLOGY
>NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
>
>CYBERSPYCHOLOGY
>M A C M I L L A N
>
>Edited by
>ANGEL J. GORDO-LOPEZ & IAN PARKER
>JULY 1999
>256 pp
>
>Paperback £14.99 0-333-73577-3
>Hardback £45.00 0-333-73576-5
>
>Cyberpsychology explores de relationships between technology and the
>individual. Tracing historical and contemporary lines of argument, the
>text brings together psychologists and cultural theorists working in the
>spheres of technology and subjectivity to explore links between popular
>culture, technoscience, feminism, queer theory, ethics and politics.
>Wide-ranging and provocative, each chapter engages with mainstream
>psychological research and critical social trend to explore issues such as
>the collapse of memory and creativity and the applications of virtual
>technologies to the lives of people with disabilities. It is essential
>reading for anyone interested in critiques of psychology and the
>developing communications media.
>
>CONTENTS
>1. Introduction: the Postdisciplinary Context for Cyberpsychology
>Angel J. Gordo-López and Ian Parker
>
>PART ONE: CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY FOR THE PSY-TECHNO COMPLEX
>2. The Labouring Body and the Posthuman
>James Sey
>3. Vertiginous Technology: Towards A Psychoanalytic Genealogy of
>Technique
>Carlos Soldevilla
>4. Cyberpsychosis: The Feminization of the Post-Biological Body
>Jill Marsden
>5. Genealogies of the Self inVirtual-Geographical Reality
>Nydza Correa De Jesús
>
>PART TWO: BODY POLITICS, ETHICS AND RESEARCH PRACTICE
>6. Cyborgs and Stigma: Technology, Disability, Subjectivity
>John Cromby and Penny Standen
>7. Psychological Ethics and Cyborg Body Politics
>Betty Bayer
>8. In and Out of the Digital Closet: The Self as Communicational
>Network
>Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera
>9. Electronic Networks and Subjectivity
>Steven D. Brown
>
>PART THREE: TRAJECTORIES, IDENTITIES AND EVENTS
>10. The Child and the Cyborg
> Erica Burman
>11. Cyberpsychology and Cyborgs
>Dan Heggs
>12. Against Social Constructionist Cyborgian Territorialisations
>Francisco Javier Tirado
>
>PART FOUR: COMMENTARIES
>13. The Cyber and the Subjective
>Steve Jones
>14. Are Media Cyborgs?
>Virginia Nightingale
>
>INDEX
>
>ANGEL J. GORDO-LÓPEZ is Assistant Lectures in the Department of Sociology
>IV at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Universidad
>Complutense de Madrid;
>IAN PARKER is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Bolton
>Institute, where he direct the Msc in Critical Psychology.
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