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.
Introduction; A.J.Gordo Lopez & I.Parker.- PART ONE: CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY FOR THE PSY-TECHNO COMPLEX.- The Labouring Body and the Posthuman; J.Sey .- Vertiginous Technology: Towards a Psychoanalytic Genealogy of Technique; C.Soldevilla Perez.- Cyberpsychosis: the Feminization of the Post-biological Body; J. Marsden.- Genealogies of the Self in Virtual-Geographical Reality; N.Correa de Jesus.- PART TWO: BODY POLITICS, ETHICS AND RESEARCH PRACTICE.- Cyborgs and Stigma: Technology, Disability, Subjectivity; J.Cromby & P.Standen.- Psychological Ethics and Cyborg Body Politics; B.Bayer.- In and Out of the Digital Closet: the Self as Communicational Network; H.J.Figueroa-Sarriera.- Electronic Networks and Subjectivity; S.Brown.- PART THREE: TRAJECTORIES, IDENTITIES AND EVENTS.- The Child and the Cyborg; E.Burman.- Cyberpsychology and Cyborgs; D.Heggs.- Against Social Constructionist Cyborgian Territorialisations; F.Javier Tirado .- PART FOUR: COMMENTARIES.- The Cyber and the Subjective; S.Jones.- Are Media Cyborgs? V.Nightingale .- Index.
