Technosex : precarious corporealities, mediated sexualities, and the ethics of embodied technics
By: Durham, Meenakshi Gigi
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan, c2016.Description: ix, 164 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9783319281414Subject(s): Mass media and sex | Communication and sex | Communication and technologyDDC classification: 306.7 DU TE Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 306.7 DU TE (Browse shelf) | Available | T0058816 |
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306.6 ME SO Sociology of the sacred : | 306.7 BE HE Hes just not that into you : | 306.7 CA CH Chicken soup for the couple's soul : | 306.7 DU TE Technosex : | 306.7 HA AC Act like a lady, think like a man : | 306.7 HE GE Getting the love you want : | 306.7 ST TR The truth : |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-153) and index.
Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Gender Trouble in Galatealand; Sexing the€Cyborg; Mediating Galatea; Subjectivity Matters: Signifying Body-Subjects; Corporeal Visions, Sexual Mirages; Chapter 2: Visible Technosexualities; Chapter 3: Sexting It Up; Chapter 4: What We€Talk About When We€Talk About Sex; Chapter 5: Galvanizing the€Frankenbabe: Sex-Media-Self; Chapter 6: Technosex and€the€Politics of€Location; Chapter 7: Conclusions: Ethics for€TechnoRebels-The Power of€Embodied Vulnerability; Bibliography; Index.
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 "sexscape," 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-- from sexting to plastic surgeries-- 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 media's 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.