{"product_id":"technoculture-by-constance-penley-and-andrew-ross","title":"'Technoculture' by Constance Penley and Andrew Ross","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"2241\" data-start=\"1733\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e You can feel people trying to theorise the future in real time, while standing knee-deep in culture-war residue and CRT monitors.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2241\" data-start=\"1733\"\u003eLong before social media platforms, algorithmic identity or digital selfhood became everyday realities, these essays were already grappling with pornography and simulation, AIDS activism, reproductive politics, cybernetics, postmodernism, biotechnology and the cultural consequences of emerging technological systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2909\" data-start=\"2243\"\u003eEdited by Constance Penley and Andrew Ross for the \u003cem data-end=\"2307\" data-start=\"2294\"\u003eSocial Text\u003c\/em\u003e collective, the collection brings together an unusually wide-ranging group of writers working across cultural studies, media theory, feminist critique, political philosophy and visual culture. Again and again, the essays circle questions that now feel startlingly contemporary: technological mediation, institutional trust, the body under systems of control, the politics of visibility, and the uneasy merging of intimacy, media and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"3254\" data-start=\"2911\"\u003eA fascinating artefact from the transitional zone between late postmodern theory and networked digital life. Particularly suited to readers interested in media archaeology, cyberculture, cultural studies, internet history, queer theory, visual culture, posthumanism and the intellectual atmosphere surrounding the end of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-is-only-node=\"\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-end=\"3430\" data-start=\"3256\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUniversity of Minnesota Press paperback edition. In very good condition with light shelf wear and minor edge rubbing to wraps. Internally clean and well preserved throughout.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44600427315283,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-12T155508.553.png?v=1778565321","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/technoculture-by-constance-penley-and-andrew-ross","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}