Digital Desires Language Identity & New Technologies

This anthology explores the ways in which new technologies and scientific discourses are having a radical impact on issues of gender. The contributors cover topics such as cyberfeminism and artificial life, the body's role in today's technoculture, and the gender politics of e-commerce.

Part 1 Intertextualities - cyberbodies and psychoanalysis: technologies of the face, Sandra Kemp; sordid states - the internal organs of a cyborg, Jane Prophet and Sian Hamlett; get alife - cyberfeminism and the politics of artificial life, Sarah Kember; whose reality is it anyway? - a psychoanalytic perspective, Tessa Adams. Part 2 Outertextualities - internal sites and external experiences: wired for violence, Sherry Millner; shop 'til you[r connection] drop[s] - considering the electronic supermarket, Angela Medhurst; the cyberflaneuse -metaphors and reality in virtual space, Maren Hartmann; infocities - from information to conversation, Penny Harvey and Gaby Porter; windows on the world - architecture, identities and new technologies, Jos Boys; frontier dreams 1 - the technological sublime - a visual essay, Stevie Bezencenet. Part 3 Intertextualities - language, identity and new technologies: women, computers and a sense of self, Erica Matlow; Sangre Boliviana - using multimedia to tell personal stories, Lucia Grossberger-Morales; disappearing digitally? - gender in the digital domain, Jackie Hatfield; vixpop puella - a work in progress, Helen Reddington.