Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?: Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Ficition: Monochrom's Arse Elektronika Anthology - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1889307238 ISBN 13: 9781889307237

Verlag: monochrom, 2009

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&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<b><span>Provocative and&#10;penetrating, <i>Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?</i> reveals a wealth of&#10;depictions of the future and shows the many ways in which they also address the&#10;present.</span></b><span> As the official artists' collective&#10;representing Vienna at the S&#227;o Paulo Art Biennial in 2002, the monochrom group&#10;&#8212; Johannes Grenzfurthner, G&#252;nther Friesinger, and Daniel Fabry &#8212; invented an&#10;artist called Georg Paul Thomann and carried off the exhibition as a very&#10;elaborate prank. The trio, aided by philosopher Thomas Ballhausen, brings that&#10;same sense of the cutting-edge and the carnivalesque to this collection&#10;exploring erotica, science fiction, and technology. A bracing mix of literary&#10;forms, the book shows why the fantasy genre is especially suited to the&#10;investigation of the transgressive realms of sexuality and pornography. Here&#10;questions of science, research, and technologization are examined, along with&#10;the complex surrounding urbanism, artificiality, and control (or the loss of&#10;control). </span>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10; <div>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<b><span>Provocative and&#10;penetrating, <i>Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?</i> reveals a wealth of&#10;depictions of the future and shows the many ways in which they also address the&#10;present.</span></b><span> As the official artists' collective&#10;representing Vienna at the S&#227;o Paulo Art Biennial in 2002, the monochrom group&#10;&#8212; Johannes Grenzfurthner, G&#252;nther Friesinger, and Daniel Fabry &#8212; invented an&#10;artist called Georg Paul Thomann and carried off the exhibition as a very&#10;elaborate prank. The trio, aided by philosopher Thomas Ballhausen, brings that&#10;same sense of the cutting-edge and the carnivalesque to this collection&#10;exploring erotica, science fiction, and technology. A bracing mix of literary&#10;forms, the book shows why the fantasy genre is especially suited to the&#10;investigation of the transgressive realms of sexuality and pornography. Here&#10;questions of science, research, and technologization are examined, along with&#10;the complex surrounding urbanism, artificiality, and control (or the loss of&#10;control). </span>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;</div>

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&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p class="MsoNormal"><span><b>Richard Kadrey</b> is a&#10;novelist, freelance writer, and photographer based in San Francisco. Kadrey&#8217;s&#10;novels are Metrophage, Kamikaze L&#8217;Amour, and Butcher Bird: A Novel Of The&#10;Dominion.&#8221; Other works include collaborative graphic novels and over 50&#10;published short stories. Kadrey&#8217;s short story Carbon Copy: Meet the First Human&#10;Clone was filmed as After Amy. His non-fiction books as a writer and/or editor&#10;include The Catalog of Tomorrow (Que/TechTV Publishing, 2002), From Myst to&#10;Riven (Hyperion, 1997), The Covert Culture Sourcebook and its sequel (St.&#10;Martin&#8217;s Press, New York, 1993 and 1994); Kadrey also hosted a live interview&#10;show on Hotwired in the 1990s called Covert Culture. He was an editor at print&#10;magazines Shift and Future Sex, and at online magazines Signum and Stim. He has&#10;published articles about art, culture and technology in publications including&#10;Wired, Omni, Mondo 2000, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, Ear, Artforum,&#10;ArtByte, Bookforum, World Art, Whole Earth Review, Reflex, Science Fiction Eye,&#10;and Interzone. </span></p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10; &#10;&#10;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#9;<div class="page" title="Page 248">&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;<div class="section">&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<div class="layoutArea">&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<div class="column">&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<p><b><span>Cory Doctorow </span></b><span>(craphound.com) is a science </span><span>fi</span><span>ction author, activist, journalist and blogger - the co-editor of Boing&#10;Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens novel LI</span><span>TT</span><span>LE BROTHER. He is the former European&#10;director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he&#10;now lives in London.&#10;</span></p>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;</div>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;</div>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;</div>&#10;&#9;&#9;</div>&#10;&#9;&#10; &#10;&#10;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#9;<div class="page" title="Page 250">&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;<div class="section">&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<div class="layoutArea">&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<div class="column">&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<p><b><span>Rudy Rucker </span></b><span>is computer scientist and science </span><span>fi</span><span>ction author, and is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary move-&#10;ment. </span><span>Th</span><span>e author of both </span><span>fi</span><span>ction and non-</span><span>fi</span><span>ction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the </span><span>fi</span><span>rst two of&#10;which (So</span><span>ft</span><span>ware and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards. At present he edits the science </span><span>fi</span><span>ction webzine Flurb.&#10;</span></p>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;</div>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;</div>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;</div>&#10;&#9;&#9;</div>&#10;&#9;&#10;

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&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p class="MsoNormal">The genre of the &#8220;fantastic&#8221; is especially well suited to&#10;the investigation of the touchy area of sexuality and pornography: actual and&#10;assumed developments are frequently depicted positively and approvingly, but&#10;just as often with dystopian admonishment: Here the classic, and continuingly&#10;valid, themes of modernism represent a clear link between the two aspects: questions&#10;of science, research and technologization are of interest, as is the complex&#10;surrounding urbanism, artificiality and control (or the loss of control).&#10;Depictions of the future, regardless of the form they take, always address the&#10;present as well. Imaginations of the fantastic and the nightmarish give rise to&#10;a thematic overlapping of the exotic, the alienating and, of course, the&#10;pornographic/sexual as well.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;

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&#10;&#10;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#10;&#9;&#9;<div class="page" title="Page 11">&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;<div class="section">&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<div class="layoutArea">&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<div class="column">&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<p><span>Science </span><span>fi</span><span>ction is a mountain of metaphors, a funhouse of crooked mirrors that give us new views of our actual world.&#10;</span></p>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<p><span>From our genes&#8217; point of view, we&#8217;re meat-based landcrawlers to ride around in. Imagine li</span><span>tt</span><span>le double helices lounging in&#10;the hammocks of your cells. What makes us especially useful is that, now and then, we spawn o</span><span>ff </span><span>new landcrawlers with&#10;copies of the passenger genes, carrying them ever forward through time.&#10;</span></p>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<p><span>Pu</span><span>tt</span><span>ing the same point di</span><span>ff</span><span>erently, if living organisms weren&#8217;t obsessed with sex none of us would be here. We&#8217;re each a&#10;link in a chain of generations, we&#8217;re dangling dollies on a slimy macrame&#769; of a trillion umbilical cords.&#10;</span></p>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<p><span>Of course we enjoy sex for more immediate reasons than reproduction: erotic pleasure, the orgasm, and partnership&#10;bonding. </span><span>Th</span><span>e last one is important. </span><span>Th</span><span>at&#8217;s why we talk about </span><span>making love</span><span>. We&#8217;re wired so that loves readily grows from the&#10;sex act.&#10;</span></p>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<p><span>Certainly, if reproduction were the only reason for sex, you wouldn&#8217;t be having so many orgasms. How many? Math time!&#10;Suppose you live to your eighties, and that you have seventy years of sexual activity, which makes for about 3,500 weeks.&#10;If you&#8217;re energetic enough to average three pops a week for seventy years, you&#8217;re talking about something on the order of&#10;ten thousand orgasms. All that brain-</span><span>fl</span><span>ashing to bring forth at most a couple of kids! </span><span>&#8216;</span><span>Oooo Mommy, you mean you and&#10;Daddy did that </span><span>twice</span><span>?</span><span>&#8217;&#10;</span></p>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;<p><span>So how about science </span><span>fi</span><span>ction and sex? Where have we been, where are we headed, and how much further can we go?&#10;</span></p>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;</div>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;</div>&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;</div>&#10;&#9;&#9;</div>&#10;&#9;&#10;

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: monochrom
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1889307238
• ISBN 13: 9781889307237
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262
• Herausgeber: Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger, Daniel Fabry, Thomas Ballhausen
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar