Meat Puppets or Robopaths? Cyberpunk and the Question of Embodiment

Foster, Thomas. "Meat Puppets or Robopaths? Cyberpunk and the Question of Embodiment" (1993). Anthologized in Jenny Wolmark, ed. Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminist Theory, Cyborgs and Cyberspace. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999. Reviewed Veronica Hollinger, "Doing It for Ourselves: Two Feminist Cyber-Readers, our source here, q.v.[1]

Hollinger notes the essay returns (and we will note, that this is like many) to Donna "Haraway’s "Manifesto" and reads possibilities in cyberpunk and the cyborg figure that are, unfortunately, always also at risk of ideological recontainment." Foster's "discussion of sf novels by writers such as Laura Mixon and Samuel R. Delany [...] suggests the potential for cyberpunk to redefine the construction of masculinity as well as to be appropriated by subjectivities other than those of standard white male hacker-heroes" (Hollinger, p. 430).

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