Artificial Culture by Tama Leaver

Artificial Culture by Tama Leaver

Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of the artificial in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that mapping our cultural understanding of the artificial simultaneously reveals a great deal about what it means to be human.

"Leaver’s Artificial Culture is a positive step in our greater understanding of contemporary culture, and I applaud his attempts at grappling with literary and film media in a single volume[…] Libraries are encouraged to purchase a copy because its breadth of research topics and theoretical approaches will appeal to a broad base of scholars." - Jason W. Ellis, CUNY

"Artificial Culture is a wide-ranging and well-researched analysis of some important cultural sites that share crucial features of ‘artificiality’, specifically technologically driven artificiality... Leaver is careful to foreground the specificities of cultural media, especially of film...[it would] be an appropriate text to include in graduate courses." - Veronica Hollinger, Trent University

"Leaver probes productively at the destabilised boundary between technologies and humans, using the notion of the artificial and the site of the body to map some of the ways contemporary identities and subjectivities are being influenced by both technologies and the rhetoric of the artificial more broadly." - Tully Barnett, Flinders University

Tama Leaver is a lecturer in the Internet Studies department at Curtin University of Technology.

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ISBN 13	9781138851528
ISBN 10	1138851523
Title	Artificial Culture
Author	Tama Leaver
Series	Routledge Research In Cultural And Media Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2014-11-10
Number of pages	218
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