Allucquère Rosanne Stone
versión en español
Allucquère Rosanne Stone
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A cybertourist's view of cyberspace research and criticism from the beginning of time into the future. This will include serious research but will not be restricted to it. The narrative thread is transcendence and redemption through technology, technology as language, and language as situated acts inseparable from discourses of desire.
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Allucquère Rosanne Stone is Assistant Professor in the department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studies issues related to interface, interaction, and desire. She is director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory. Previously she was a visiting lecturer in the departments of Communication and Sociology at the University of California San Diego, where she taught film, linguistics, gender, cultural studies, and feminist theory. She has conducted research on the neurological basis of vision and hearing for National Institutes of Health; was a member of the Bell Telephone Laboratories Special Systems Exploratory Development Group; has been a consultant, computer programmer, technical writer and engineering manager in Silicon Valley; and worked with Jimi Hendrix in music recording. She was invited to Sundance Institute in 1986. She produces the Monterey Symphony radio broadcast series. She is director of the Group for the Study of Virtual Systems at the Center for Cultural Studies, UC Santa Cruz, was program chair and organizer for the 1991 Second International Conference on Cyberspace, was a member of the program committee for the Third International Conference on Cyberspace in 1993, and is a member of the program committee for the Fourth and Fifth International Conferences on Cyberspace in 1994 and 1996. Her academic publications include "Will The Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures", in Michael Benedikt, ed.: "Cyberspace: First Steps" (MIT Press); "Sex, Death, and Architecture", in Architecture- New York (ANY); "Virtual Systems", in Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, eds.: "ZONE 6: Incorporations" (MIT); "The Architecture of Elsewhere", in Hraszthan Zeitlian (ed.), "Semiotext(e) Architecture"; and "The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto", in Kristina Straub and Julia Epstein, eds.: "Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Sexual Ambiguity" (Routledge), recently reprinted in Camera Obscura 26. Her book "The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age" has been published by MIT Press. Her work has appeared in such publications as Lusitania, ANY (Architecture New York), and Assemblage. Among forthcoming pieces, "The Gaze of the Vampire: Tales From the Edges of Identity" will be published in 1996; she is editing the first academic reader on transgender theory; is completing a science fiction novel; and is working on a study of vampirism and carnival. She is currently touring a one-person "theoryperformance" on cyberspace and the transhuman. |