Sex, Machines and Navels: Fiction, Fantasy and History in the Future Present

by Fred Botting

Available again in paperback, this study offers a rigorous critical re-reading of fictions of humanity, history, technology and postmodern culture.

Taking psychoanalysis into cyberspace, the book develops an innovative theoretical perspective on the relationship between bodies and machines to offer a focused re-examination of notions of desire, metaphor, sexed identity and difference and the process of technological transformation.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071905625X
• ISBN13: 9780719056253
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"