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- Title
The pleasure of the interface.
- Authors
Springer, Claudia
- Abstract
The article proposes that if this is a post-pornographic era, it is most aptly distinguished by the dispersion of sexual representation across boundaries that previously separated the organic from the technological. The cyborg in popular culture is constituted by paradoxes: its contradictions are its essence, and its vision of a discordant future is in fact a projection of people's own conflictual present. What is really being debated in the discussions surrounding a cyborg future are contemporary disputes concerning gender and sexuality onto which the public can project their fascination and fears.
- Subjects
CYBORGS; POPULAR culture; HUMAN sexuality in mass media; INTELLECTUAL life; MASS society; CULTURE
- Publication
Screen, 1991, Vol 32, Issue 3, p303
- ISSN
0036-9543
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/screen/32.3.303