Technosex : precarious corporealities, mediated sexualities, and the ethics of embodied technics / Meenakshi Gigi Durham.
2016
P96.S45 D87 2016
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Title
Technosex : precarious corporealities, mediated sexualities, and the ethics of embodied technics / Meenakshi Gigi Durham.
ISBN
9783319281421 (electronic book)
3319281429 (electronic book)
9783319281414
3319281410
3319281429 (electronic book)
9783319281414
3319281410
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Copyright
© 2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 164 pages)
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P96.S45 D87 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.7
Summary
In this book, Meenakshi Gigi Durham outlines and advances a progressive feminist framework for digital ethics in the technosexual landscape, exploring the complex and evolving interrelationships between sex and tech. Today we live in a ℓ́ℓsexscape,ℓ́ℓ a globalized assemblage of media, transnational capital, sexual practices, and identities. Sexuality suffuses the contemporary media-saturated environment; we engage with sex via cellphone apps and airport TVs, billboards and Jumbotron screens. Our techniques of sexual representation and body transformation ℓ́ℓ from sexting to plastic surgeries ℓ́ℓ occur in relation to our deep and complex engagements with mediated images of desire. These technosexual interactions hold the promise of sexual liberation and boldly imaginative pleasures. But in the machinic suturing of technologies with bodies, the politics of race, class, gender, and nation continue to matter. Paying acute attention to mediaℓ́ℓs relationship to the politics of location, social hierarchies, and regulatory schemas, the author mounts a lucid and passionate argument for an ethics of technosex invested in the analysis of power. .
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