Cyberspace, Cyberbodies, Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment was edited by Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows, and published in 1995. It is a compendium of essays about cybernetics, virtual reality, cyberpunk culture, and psychoanalytic psychology. I bought the book to read about technological aspects of cyberpunk culture. The book discusses parameters of cybernetic society that develop into personalities and motivations.
Sixteen authors contribute analyses and insights that build academic arguments about individuality, technology, and society. Concepts that are central to cyberpunk culture are discussed, and concepts that are peripheral to cyberpunk culture are explained as incidental realities. I recommend Cyberspace, Cyberbodies, Cyberpunk to everyone who wants to develop their education in rationalization, representation, and virtual reality. It is an excellent book for scientific discussions about cyberpunk culture. It develops recognition of the difficult economics of intellectual investigations. Jasmine Jennifer McAlpine [email protected] The Cybercultures Reader was edited by David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy, and published in 2000. It is a compendium of essays about cybercultures, feminism, sexuality, and cyberspace. I bought the book to read about origins and foundations of cyberpunk themes and philosophies that contribute to them. The book is a fantastic source of discussions about sexualization, existentialism, and cultural history.
Essays in the compendium discuss technical aspects of popular entertainment, psychoanalytic psychology, and virtual reality. They develop ideas about intentionality, seduction, and oppression. Many facets of cyberpunk themes are describes and explained in the book. I am impressed by the many details and dimensions that are included in the essays. I enjoy the pace and tone. Logical discussions about philosophical relationships and tangential comments about historical dilemmas are informative and inventive. I recommend The Cybercultures Reader to everyone who is interested in computer technologies, feminism, cyberpunk, cyberspace, and societies. It is a great collection of scholarly essays that records intellectualism from the end of the twentieth century. Jasmine Jennifer McAlpine [email protected] Rath's Deception by Piers Platt is a very interesting work. It is Book One of The Janus Group, and an extensive account of upsets and travails. Rath is a soldier in the future where people around him constantly fight. He is determined to fight back at a violent world that seems to be unaware of consequences.
Rath lives in a man's world. Crime and death are understood to be normal phases for society. Violence is commonplace, and sex is an act of personal gratification that stands in the way of better pleasures. Tarkis is a cyberpunk world where greed, idolatry, and confusion are unavoidable circumstances. Police continue complex investigations of violent crimes, and Rath becomes a contractor for an organization of assassins. Rath fights the police, and complex investigations continue without legal actions or judicial review. Piers Platt creates excellent imagery. He uses experiences for originality. Emotional subjectivity is included in every notion and adventure. Rath's Deception is a personal journey through a criminal organization to get lots of money and make life feel better. It is a tale about masculinity defeating ideas. Rath gains independence from Tarkis, and becomes a symbol of evil and immorality. He loses his humanity, and becomes a myth. He gets targeted by his criminal organization for assassination. Rath's Deception is an eventful narrative. It is a private exploration into a cyberpunk world where circumstances require violent actions. Consequences of violence create complex opportunities for more violence. Jasmine Jennifer McAlpine [email protected] The Punisher's Brain by Morris B. Hoffman is a fascinating analysis about instincts that engage fundamental legal principles. Hoffman argues in his book that legal principles are behavioral responses to crime. The responses evolved, and got built into society. His book continues with practical views about the fiduciary responsibilities of judges and juries.
The punishment of self, neighbors, and strangers for the effective correction of morality is the central theme of Hoffman's book. Answers to the psychological roots of crime and how criminals should be punished justly are included. Additionally, Hoffman implies facets of the economics of emotionality. For example, hardships and frustrations from life's difficulties are costs that reconcile against the personal savings of dignity and composure. Conscience, hormones, and reactions are instincts that cause psychological stress, and consequently engage fundamental legal principles. Immorality, disobedience, and damages are the legal principles that are engaged by the instincts. Immorality is sin leading to crime, disobedience is willfulness leading to conflicts, and damages are injuries leading to revenge. Hoffman states that instincts have evolved for approximately 100,000 years. The Punisher's Brain finishes its tale with brief discussions about jurisprudence. Effective criminal justice is Hoffman's primary concern, and he discusses conflicts between natural psychology and legal precedents. He stipulates that effective criminal justice is human nature following the letter of law, and insists that the economics of conscience guides logic and reason to fair verdicts. Hoffman's book contains many references that validate his perspectives. Hoffman uses his personal experiences and insights from legal practice to account for human nature in the criminal justice system. He uses human nature to describe punishment for criminal wrongdoing, explains fiduciary responsibilities that come with the rights to punish others, and indicates philosophical issues that relate to effective administration of law. Hoffman's book reveals the impact of instincts on law and punishment, and includes many details about the evolution of instinctive behavior. Jasmine Jennifer McAlpine [email protected] Three Ex Presidents and James Franco by John Buchanan is a diaristic account of a quiet man that starts with a boring life. The man becomes engrossed in a Presidential play that seems to be occurring in his head. A woman named Fiona introduces the play into the man's conversations, and the Presidents become part of his mind.
The man's insights and relationships build during the story, and he gets thrown into Jake's closet. The scenes spin into mirrors of the man in his relationships. The tone of the innocuous beginning of the story held an idled life, and it turns into a rich chaos of unusually violent episodes. The end suggests that the man could have played all of the roles in his relationships. The man progresses from an insensible boredom that lacks responsibilities into a series of tangled relationships with idealistic friends. The people are not much unlike him, but he brings along a sense of curiosity that they don't have. Fiona enters into the story to start the man's play at its beginning. She moves the man's easy-going life into chaos where he assuredly trips into something too big for him. His innocence gets lost without a fight. President Bill Clinton has the leading role at the end, and the man's friends have become symbols describing his personality. His friends have become part of a new perspective that includes his delusional fame for his own uniqueness. Jasmine Jennifer McAlpine [email protected] |
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