Subject, body, and technology in the discourse of cyberculture: the case of wired magazine

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Karadeniz, Oğuz Özgür

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This study aims to provide an account of the production of subject through the representations of body and technology in the discourse of cyberculture through the analysis of Wired magazine. The findings indicate that the subject produced in this discourse is normatively white and male, and is produced along the ways of liberal humanism as it is conceptualized as autonomous, having free will and preceding the discursive operations and market relations. The production of this subject requires a series of exclusions and abjections including the smart machines which are becoming increasingly humanoid and thus forming a threat to the category of “human” and to the boundaries of the autonomous subject

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General Sociology., Cyberculture.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/19622

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O. Ö. Karadeniz, “Subject, body, and technology in the discourse of cyberculture: the case of wired magazine,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.