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Technoromanticism : digital narrative, holism, and the romance of the real

The author explores the spectrum of romantic narrative that pervades the digital age, from McLuhan's utopian vision of social reintegration by electronic communications to the claims of cyberspace to offer new realities. Populating these narratives are cyborgs, computerized agents, avatars and characters that have putative digital identities
Print Book, English, ©1999
MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., ©1999
x, 398 pages ; 23 cm
9780262032605, 9780262531917, 0262032600, 0262531917
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Introduction
UNITY: HOW IT NARRATIVES ATTEMPT TO TRANSCEND THE MATERIAL REALM: Digital utopias
Cybernetic rapture
MULTIPLICITY: THE EMPIRICIST TRADITION OF REALISM, AND ITS CRITICS: The empiricist legacy
The symbolic order
Pragmatics of cyberspace
INEFFABILITY: HOW CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES OF FRACTURED IDENTITIES CHALLENGE TECHNOROMANTICISM: Oedipus in cyberspace
Schizophrenia and suspicion
Technoromantic narratives