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Garfield Benjamin - The Cyborg Subject: Reality, Consciousness, Parallax - 9781137584489 - V9781137584489
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The Cyborg Subject: Reality, Consciousness, Parallax

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Description for The Cyborg Subject: Reality, Consciousness, Parallax Hardback. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; PDA; UYQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
This book outlines a new conception of the cyborg in terms of consciousness as the parallax gap between physical and digital worlds. The contemporary subject constructs its own internal reality in the interplay of the Virtual and the Real. Reinterpreting the work of Slavoj Zizek and Gilles Deleuze in terms of the psychological and ontological construction of the digital, alongside the philosophy of quantum physics, this book offers a challenge to materialist perspectives in the fluid cyberspace that is ever permeating our lives. The inclusion of the subject in its own epistemological framework establishes a model for an engaged ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137584489
SKU
V9781137584489
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Garfield Benjamin
Garfield Benjamin is a cultural theorist and digital artist working with issues of subjectivity and reality in the digital age. He completed his PhD in Digital Technology Theory and Practice at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. His internationally exhibited digital art practice includes computer-generated images, interactive games and augmented reality.

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