From False Teeth to Exoskeletons: The Body and Materiality in William Gibson’s Burning Chrome

From False Teeth to Exoskeletons: The Body and Materiality in William Gibson’s Burning Chrome

Considering texts from William Gibson’s short story collection, Burning Chrome, this essay seeks to establish that the material ontology of the body cannot be discounted in current ontological and existential debates, but rather, we might re-conceptualise pre-existing notions of human selfhood under...

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Main Author: Hannah Collins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2014-12-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/1148
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