The implosion of the body in a digital age: An analysis of the body as a source of personal identity and social production based on feminist perspectives and technoscience

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  • Elisabeth Tómmerbakk

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https://doi.org/10.18537/puc.25.01

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literatura, historia, pensamiento , educación

Abstract

In this digital age the social and cultural meanings of the body have changed due to technoscience, the market and the possibilities of cyberspace. The human body has become one of the most important territories for the subject’s representation of the “self” and identity. Along history the human body has been connected to dichotomies and strict divisions (subject/ object, masculine/feminine, nature/culture), that pretended to govern and control its possibilities. These divisions and categories are not so clear, as they used to be. The real and the virtual, overlap, creating new territories of exploration and transgression. The subject has access to new and complex ways of constructing his or her identity using tools and possibilities offered by technology and technoscience. 

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Published

2019-03-13

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Tómmerbakk, E. (2019). The implosion of the body in a digital age: An analysis of the body as a source of personal identity and social production based on feminist perspectives and technoscience. Revista Pucara, 1(25), 9–36. https://doi.org/10.18537/puc.25.01

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Vol. 1 No. 25 (2013): Pucara Revista de Humanidades

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