Gendered Bodies and New Technologies: Rethinking Embodiment in a Cyber-era

Gendered Bodies and New Technologies: Rethinking Embodiment in a Cyber-era
ISBN-10
1443815411
ISBN-13
9781443815413
Category
Social Science
Pages
215
Language
English
Published
2009-10-02
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Author
Amanda du Preez

Description

In this era of ubiquitous information flow, heightened mobility and limitless consumer convenience, human interaction with new technologies has become increasingly seamless. In the process, the human body is effectively and steadily reduced to just another interface, or a “second life”, so to speak. What is easily forgotten during this translucent transaction is that being human also necessarily implies being embodied. In other words, to constitute a body in its non-negotiable physicality is still what it entails to be human (amongst other things). To live daily in and through the complicated and dynamic intersection between “mind” and “body”, psychology and physiology―also known as embodiment―is what makes us human.

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