The love affair between humans and the machines that have made
us faster and more powerful has expanded into cyberspace, where
computer technology seems to offer both the promise of heightened
erotic fulfillment and the threat of human obsolescence. In this
pathfinding study, Claudia Springer explores the techno-erotic
imagery in recent films, cyberpunk fiction, comic books,
television, software, and writing on virtual reality and artificial
intelligence to reveal how these futuristic images actually encode
current debates concerning gender roles and sexuality.
Drawing on psychoanalytical and film theory, as well as the
history of technology, Springer offers the first sustained analysis
of eroticism and gender in such films as RoboCop, The Terminator,
Eve of Destruction, and Lawnmower Man; cyberpunk books such as
Neuromancer, Count Zero, Virtual Light, A Fire in the Sun, and Lady
El; the comic books Cyberpunk and Interface, among others; and the
television series Mann and Machine. Her analysis demonstrates that
while new electronic technologies have inspired changes in some pop
culture texts, others stubbornly recycle conventions from the past,
refusing to come to terms with the new postmodern social order.
Written to be accessible and entertaining for students and
general readers as well as scholars, Electronic Eros will be of
interest to a wide interdisciplinary audience.
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