Bodies and Their Spaces


Here's a short list of links that explore issues of corporeality in a network society.
These pieces try to raise questions rather than answer them. I hope.

Julian Dibbell's A Rape in Cyberspace, Village Voice, December, 1993
Sex, States, and Nomads: My Comments on Dibbell's Article, from the 1995 DeKalb College President's Workshop
Sandy Stone's Violation and Virtuality, an assemblage of comments and observations (1993)
Kate Hayles's "Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers" essay
Susanna Paasonen: "Thinking Through the Cybernetic Body"
Links to Donna Haraway
More Haraway links
Online version of the Cyborg Manifesto
EFF's archive on Cyborg Anthropology
Arthur Kroker and Michael Weinstein: The Hyper-texted Body (or, Nietzsche Gets a Modem)
Definitions for telepresence, courtesy of Stanford's Center for Design Research
Cybernetic Body Art: Stelarc
Lisa Nakamura's article, "Race In/For Cyberspace"
Virtual Concrete: An Exploration into Corpo-Reality
Steve Shaviro's Doom Patrols, Chapter 13: Pavel Curtis
Techie Stuff: Virtual Bodies at the Human Interface Technology Lab, University of Washington


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