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Umfang: 1 online resource (195 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2024.

ISBN: 9783031610103

Serie: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender,

Inhalt: "Cyborgs, Ethics and The Matrix is a wonderfully sharp and insightful book on the massively popular The Matrix franchise and its intersections with crucial debates about gender, sex, trans-, and - really - who gets to count as human. Compellingly written, this book is of interest to fans of the franchise and those of us who care about those different from ourselves." - Steen Ledet Christiansen, Associate Professor of English at Aalborg University, Denmark "Like the franchise itself, Gibson's book is at once deeply philosophical and yet exceptionally accessible, making it a necessary read for academic and general audiences alike." - Liz W Faber, Assistant Professor of English & Communication at Dean College, USA The Matrix (Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski 1999) has permeated our cultural consciousness for two decades, working its way into such common parlance as "a glitch in the Matrix," and the idea of taking the Red Pill. With the release of the fourth movie, The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski 2021), and the confirmation of the franchise being a metaphor for gender transition, this book examines how the entire franchise contributes to the discourse on sex and gender, and how it has been instrumental in propelling the creation of new types of cyborg technology. This book centers on the main philosophical theme of The Matrix, know thyself, and relate it to the quest for authenticity which creates our identities-be they human, or human "enough"-as we move through the world. Dr. Rebecca Gibson is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University, specializing in biological anthropology. Her published works include Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and The Corseted Skeleton: A Bioarchaeology of Binding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Anmerkung: 1. The Cultural Impact of The Matrix Series -- 2. The Matrix: At the Source, or Where it all Began -- 3. The Animatrix and The Matrix Comics: Limitless Potential for Imagining New Cyborg Technology -- 4. The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions: Cephalopod Robots and the Nature of Truth -- 5. The Matrix Resurrections: Love Outlives Death -- 6. So: Who Are You? Virtual Reality, DSI, and Personality.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Gibson, Rebecca Cyborgs, Ethics, and the Matrix Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 ISBN 9783031610097

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-61010-3

URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61010-3

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 183 Seiten) , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9783031610103 , 3031610105

Serie: Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender

Inhalt: Cyborgs, Ethics and The Matrix is a wonderfully sharp and insightful book on the massively popular The Matrix franchise and its intersections with crucial debates about gender, sex, trans-, and really who gets to count as human. Compellingly written, this book is of interest to fans of the franchise and those of us who care about those different from ourselves. Steen Ledet Christiansen, Associate Professor of English at Aalborg University, Denmark "Like the franchise itself, Gibson's book is at once deeply philosophical and yet exceptionally accessible, making it a necessary read for academic and general audiences alike. - Liz W Faber, Assistant Professor of English & Communication at Dean College, USA The Matrix (Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski 1999) has permeated our cultural consciousness for two decades, working its way into such common parlance as a glitch in the Matrix, and the idea of taking the Red Pill. With the release of the fourth movie, The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski 2021), and the confirmation of the franchise being a metaphor for gender transition, this book examines how the entire franchise contributes to the discourse on sex and gender, and how it has been instrumental in propelling the creation of new types of cyborg technology. This book centers on the main philosophical theme of The Matrix, know thyself, and relate it to the quest for authenticity which creates our identitiesbe they human, or human enoughas we move through the world. Dr. Rebecca Gibson is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University, specializing in biological anthropology. Her published works include Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and The Corseted Skeleton: A Bioarchaeology of Binding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index , Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: The Cultural Impact of The Matrix Series -- Down the Rabbit Hole: The Beginning of The Matrix Journey -- Looking Back on The Matrix: Various Interviews with the Wachowskis -- The Transitionary Trajectory of the Wachowskis' Filmography -- Authenticity, Simulation, and Sex and Gender -- The Book Ahead -- Glossary and Cast of Characters -- Glossary -- Cast of Characters -- References -- Chapter 2: The Matrix: At the Source, or Where It All Began -- If You Have Taken the Red Pill... , Neo Enters Wonderland: An Extended Metaphor -- How Gender Is Used in the Matrix: From Hyper-masculine to Soft-Masculine, and Everything Between -- Not Down the Rabbit Hole, but over the Rainbow: Cypher's Hyper-masculinity -- Non-binary in a Binary World: Switch and Going Against the Color Symbolism -- Skirt over Pants: Trinity's Non-traditional Femininity -- A Softer Masculinity in Neo's The One -- Who Are You? How Can You Tell? And Does It Even Matter? -- Future Tech: What Was Available in the 1990s, and Where The Matrix Took Us -- References , Chapter 3: The Animatrix and The Matrix Comics: Limitless Potential for Imagining New Cyborg Technology -- The Interstitials: Plots and Characterizations for Selected Animated Shorts and Comics -- A Plot Overview and Analysis in Three Parts: Shorts That Epitomize Connections -- Program: Is Life a Binary State? -- Analyzing "Program" for the Cis/Trans Duality -- "Kid's Story": Self-actualization and Transhumanism -- The Kid, Neo, and Transhumanism -- A Detective Story: More Alice Symbolism and What Trinity Does with Her Time , Red Queen or Queen of Hearts, C[y]pher or Jabberwocky? Trinity's Multiple Personas -- Enter the Matrix, The Matrix Comics, and Things You Should Know Before the Next Two Movies -- A Scatological Reference, a Surprising Bit of Transphobia, and the Rest of the Alice References in the Comics -- Technology in the Early 2000s, and Its Ethical Implications -- Fluid in Your Lungs -- Ice in Your Veins -- A Note on Love, Belief, Ethics, and (Transhuman Based) Embodiment -- References -- Chapter 4: The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions: Cephalopod Robots and the Nature of Truth , The Journey to Zion and the Embodiment of Smith: A Plot Overview for Reloaded and Revolutions -- Persephone and the Merovingian, Gendered Archetypes, and the Nature of Truth -- A Digression into Philosophy: Truth and The Merovingian's Masculinity -- Returning to Persephone: Calm, Collected Queen of the Underworld -- A Religious Metaphor, or Multiple? The Role of the Keymaker -- The Oracle and the Architect, Gendered Archetypes, and Conflicting Types of Reality -- Nurturing, Guiding, Caring, but Tough: The Oracle Is Everyone's Mother

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Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9783031610097

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gibson, Rebecca, 1981 - Cyborgs, Ethics, and The Matrix Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2024 ISBN 9783031610097

Sprache: Englisch

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UID:

Umfang: 1 online resource (195 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9783031610103

Serie: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender Series

Anmerkung: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: The Cultural Impact of The Matrix Series -- Down the Rabbit Hole: The Beginning of The Matrix Journey -- Looking Back on The Matrix: Various Interviews with the Wachowskis -- The Transitionary Trajectory of the Wachowskis' Filmography -- Authenticity, Simulation, and Sex and Gender -- The Book Ahead -- Glossary and Cast of Characters -- Glossary -- Cast of Characters -- References -- Chapter 2: The Matrix: At the Source, or Where It All Began -- If You Have Taken the Red Pill… -- Neo Enters Wonderland: An Extended Metaphor -- How Gender Is Used in the Matrix: From Hyper-masculine to Soft-Masculine, and Everything Between -- Not Down the Rabbit Hole, but over the Rainbow: Cypher's Hyper-masculinity -- Non-binary in a Binary World: Switch and Going Against the Color Symbolism -- Skirt over Pants: Trinity's Non-traditional Femininity -- A Softer Masculinity in Neo's The One -- Who Are You? How Can You Tell? And Does It Even Matter? -- Future Tech: What Was Available in the 1990s, and Where The Matrix Took Us -- References -- Chapter 3: The Animatrix and The Matrix Comics: Limitless Potential for Imagining New Cyborg Technology -- The Interstitials: Plots and Characterizations for Selected Animated Shorts and Comics -- A Plot Overview and Analysis in Three Parts: Shorts That Epitomize Connections -- Program: Is Life a Binary State? -- Analyzing "Program" for the Cis/Trans Duality -- "Kid's Story": Self-actualization and Transhumanism -- The Kid, Neo, and Transhumanism -- A Detective Story: More Alice Symbolism and What Trinity Does with Her Time -- Red Queen or Queen of Hearts, C[y]pher or Jabberwocky? Trinity's Multiple Personas -- Enter the Matrix, The Matrix Comics, and Things You Should Know Before the Next Two Movies. , A Scatological Reference, a Surprising Bit of Transphobia, and the Rest of the Alice References in the Comics -- Technology in the Early 2000s, and Its Ethical Implications -- Fluid in Your Lungs -- Ice in Your Veins -- A Note on Love, Belief, Ethics, and (Transhuman Based) Embodiment -- References -- Chapter 4: The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions: Cephalopod Robots and the Nature of Truth -- The Journey to Zion and the Embodiment of Smith: A Plot Overview for Reloaded and Revolutions -- Persephone and the Merovingian, Gendered Archetypes, and the Nature of Truth -- A Digression into Philosophy: Truth and The Merovingian's Masculinity -- Returning to Persephone: Calm, Collected Queen of the Underworld -- A Religious Metaphor, or Multiple? The Role of the Keymaker -- The Oracle and the Architect, Gendered Archetypes, and Conflicting Types of Reality -- Nurturing, Guiding, Caring, but Tough: The Oracle Is Everyone's Mother -- Cold, Authoritarian, Daddy Knows Best: The Architect Is Paternal Discipline -- The Multiplicity of Agent Smith and Transhumanism -- Autonomy and Identity-What Is Lost in the Embodiment of Transhumanism -- The Squiddies and the Twins-Predicting Cephalopodal Developments in Technology -- Smooth Biopropulsion: Swim Like the Squiddies, Dodge Like the Twins -- Limbs, Tentacles, and Technology: Squiddies Grasp and Tear -- Hiding in Plain Sight: The Twins Camouflage and Transparent Technology -- References -- Chapter 5: The Matrix Resurrections: Love Outlives Death -- Resurrected Interest: Reasons for Resurrections -- Plot Overview: A More Mature Matrix -- Revisiting Masculinity and Femininity: Neo, Chad, Trinity, and the Crew of the Mnemosyne -- Thomas A. Anderson/Neo: Detoxified Masculinity -- Chad: Toxic Masculinity, Incel Culture, and the Chad Meme. , Tiffany/Trinity: Reluctant Motherhood, Atypical Femininity, and Her Importance as an Inspiration -- The Queer-Coded and Openly Loving Crew of the Mnemosyne -- Morpheus, Smith, and The Analyst: Characters as Embodied Concepts -- Recasting Morpheus: An Icon, a Leader … a Blowhard -- Recasting Smith: Nemesis, Equal, Singular -- Re-creating the Matrix's Center of Control: The Analyst -- Locations and Their Simulations in the World of The Matrix and The Matrix Resurrections -- The Alice House: Neo Goes Through the Looking Glass Once More -- Remaining Minutiae Within the Stories: The Short Distance Between Civilized and Uncivilized -- The Merging of Universes: Cloud Atlas, Sense8, the Matrix, and Transness -- Recent Advancements in Biotech: How to Embody Your Gender, and Why You Might Lose Your Head (but Not Your Personality) -- Various Ways to Transition, New(er) Ways to Embody Your Gender -- Continuity of Personality Regardless of Appearance: Resurrections, The Matrix Resurrections, and Head Transplants -- References -- Chapter 6: So: Who Are You? Virtual Reality, DSI, and Personality -- Cyborg Identity, Transhumanism, and the Body -- We Are Born, We Grow Up… -- Bodily Integrity and Identity Formation: Are You a Product of Your Upbringing? -- Personality Formation and Artificial Reality: Apart from the Body, Who Are You? -- Paint the Sky with Rainbows: The Queerness of the Cyborg -- The Speculative Future of Biotech: What We Dream of, What We Have, Where We Can Go Next -- The Current Biotech Boom: Nature, Robots, and "Fixing" the Human Body -- How Much Flesh Does It Take to Make a Human? -- References -- Index.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Gibson, Rebecca Cyborgs, Ethics, and the Matrix Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 ISBN 9783031610097

Sprache: Englisch