At the dawn of the new millennium, Western culture is marked by various fantasies that imagine our future selves and their forms of embodiment. These fantasies are part of a rapidly growing cultural discourse about the future of the human body; the ever more illusive boundary between the human, the animal, and the technological; and the cultural consequences of greater human-technological integration.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: CULTURAL FETISHISMS
Introduction
Millennial Decadence and Decadent Fetishism
Magical Fetishism: Worshipping at the Technological Altar
PART TWO: FETISHIZED SUBJECTIVITIES
Forms of Technofetishism and Future Selves: Negotiating the Post-Human Terrain
Fetishism at the Professional Dungeon: The Dominatrix and her Male Slave
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
