Résumé :
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Virtual Politics is a critical overview of the new - digital - body politic, with new technologies framing the discussion of key themes in social theory. This book shows how these new technologies are altering the nature of identity and agency, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation. The principal theme of Virtual Politics is that electronically and digitally simulated environments offer an important metaphor for understanding social relations. This volume focuses on how virtual reality effectively extend space, time and the body; and shows how technologies such as the motor car and environments such as the cinema and the shopping mall, prefigure cyberspace. Virtual Politics examines the loss of political identity and agency in cyberspace and identifies a disembodied consumer in anonymous control of a simulated reality.
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