Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric

By Jill Walker Rettberg, 15 October, 2011
Author
Diane Greco Josefowicz
Publication Type
Other
Language
English
Year
Publisher
Eastgate Systems, Inc.
URL
Book description at Eastgate
License
All Rights reserved
Record Status
Approved record
Tags
cyborg
hypertext
non-fiction
Abstract (in English)

An early non-fiction hypertext exploring "the significance of the cyborg in 20th century writing. from Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson to Haraway and Derrida." This book-length work was published as a stand-alone Storyspace hypertext on a disk/CD-ROM.

This work was published under Diane Greco Josefowicz' earlier name, Diane Greco.

Pull Quotes

If cyborgs know about anything, they know about parts. Spare parts, parts and wholes, prostheses, replacements, enhancements. How do you make sense of all these pieces? After the disaster, when things fall apart, cyborgs know how to stitch themselves back together.