Desire and Death in Cyberspace: Deconstructing Current and Emergent Pedagogies of Virtual Reality Technologies

Dissertation, University of Toronto (Canada) (1996)
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This thesis interrogates the ethicopolitical implications of the emergence from media culture of the novel social formation of global postmodern cyberculture. It describes and analyzes the impact of the development of virtual reality technologies and cyberspace--and their attendant militarized, heteropatriarchal cyberpedagogies--on subjectivity, cultural authority, cultural values, and notions of space, information and community. The broad context of global postmodern cyberculture is delineated and specific issues and cultural practices such as legal/juridical practices that have been radically transformed by ubiquitous computerization, digitalization, and virtualization are analyzed. Some of the profound philosophical implications of an emergent bimodal global cyberculture--fleshworld and virtual--are investigated. ;The operation within cyberspace of a Foucauldian micro-physics of power, the interpellation of docile digital bodies, cyborgization, and the development of a hypersurveillant Cyberpanoptical order are interrogated. The final section of the thesis describes and articulates a critical cyberpedagogy that builds on the "tradition" of critical pedagogy and current poststructural, feminist, and postmodern theorizations in cultural studies. Critical cyberpedagogy is contrasted with some current theorizations of media literacy. ;The question of a micropolitics of resistance is adumbrated and the possibilities of a counterhegemonic discourse and the operationalization of the emancipatory cultural practices of cyberfeminism, cyberart, and cyberdemocracy in cyberspace are explored. The thesis ends with a polemical "thought experiment" called Cyberheterotopia

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