Cyberpsychology

1. Front Matter

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2. Cyberpsychology: Postdisciplinary Contexts and Projects

   1. Cyberpsychology: Postdisciplinary Contexts and Projects

      • Ángel J. Gordo-López, Ian Parker

      Pages 1-21

3. Conditions of Possibility for the Psy-techno Complex

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-24

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   2. The Labouring Body and the Posthuman

      • James Sey

      Pages 25-41

   3. Vertiginous Technology: Towards a Psychoanalytic Genealogy of Technique

      • Carlos Soldevilla Pérez

      Pages 42-58

   4. Cyberpsychosis: The Feminization of the Postbiological Body

      • Jill Marsden

      Pages 59-76

   5. Genealogies of the Self in Virtual-Geographical Reality

      • Nydza Correa De Jesús

      Pages 77-91

4. Body Politics, Ethics and Research Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-94

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   2. Cyborgs and Stigma: Technology, Disability, Subjectivity

      • John Cromby, Penny Standen

      Pages 95-112

   3. Psychological Ethics and Cyborg Body Politics

      • Betty M. Bayer

      Pages 113-129

   4. In and Out of the Digital Closet: The Self as Communication Network

      • Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera

      Pages 130-145

   5. Electronic Networks and Subjectivity

      • Steven D. Brown

      Pages 146-165

5. Trajectories, Identities and Events

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-168

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   2. The Child and the Cyborg

      • Erica Burman

      Pages 169-183

   3. Cyberpsychology and Cyborgs

      • Dan Heggs

      Pages 184-201

   4. Against Social Constructionist Cyborgian Territorializations

      • Francisco Javier Tirado

      Pages 202-217

6. Commentaries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. The Cyber and the Subjective

      • Steve Jones

      Pages 221-225

   3. Are Media Cyborgs?

      • Virginia Nightingale

      Pages 226-235

7. Back Matter

   Pages 236-244

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Cyberpsychology explores the connections between modes of information and the management of the individual in the context of new technologies. Tracing historical and contemporary lines of argument, the text brings together psychologists and cultural theorists working in the spheres of technology and subjectivity to explore links between popular culture, technoscience, feminism, ethics and politics. Wide-ranging and provocative, each chapter engages with mainstream psychological research and critical social trends to explore issues such as the collapse of memory and creativity and the applications of virtual technologies to the lives of people with disabilities. It is essential reading for anyone interested in critical psychology and the developing communications media.

• communication
• creativity
• ethics
• memory
• psychology

• Department of Sociology IV at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

  Ángel J. Gordo-López

• Discourse Unit, Bolton Institute, UK

  Ian Parker

ANGEL JUAN GORDO LÓPEZ is Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Sociology IV at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is the author of The Psycho-Techno-Complex: Psychological Boundary Objects and Psychology, Discourse and Social Practice: From Regulation to Resistance with Alldred et al (1996) and has contributed to The Cyborg Handbook (1995).

IAN PARKER is Professor of Psychology at The Manchester Metropolitan University. He has written widely in the field of critical psychology; his most recent publication is Psychoanalytic Discourse in Western Society.

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