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“No Mind to Lose”? A critical analysis of late 20th-century fantasies of neuroscience and digital media

Mazurek, Daniel Charles
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2023-08-21
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Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, International cultural studies, Neuroscience, popular science, tech studies, media studies, posthumanism, cultural theory, critical theory, cyberpunk, science fiction, transhumanism
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The shadow of Cartesian dualism still lingers over the intellectual and imaginative landscape of the West. Increasingly, over the past half-century, its presence has delineated the contours of material development, as well. A brief reading of three fictions provides the starting point for the critical analysis which follows.
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NUI Galway
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