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Format: 1 online resource (195 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9783031610103

Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender Series

Note: 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.

Additional Edition: Print version: Gibson, Rebecca Cyborgs, Ethics, and the Matrix Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 ISBN 9783031610097

Language: English