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    Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology
    Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology
    Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology
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    Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology

    By Dominic Pettman

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    Are totems merely a thing of the distant past? Or might it be that our sleek new machines are producing totemic forces which we are only beginning to recognize?
    This book asks to what degree today's media technologies are haunted by a Freudian ghost, functioning as totems or taboos (or both). By isolating five case-studies (rabbits in popular culture, animated creatures that go "off-program," virtual lovers, jealous animal spirit guides, and electronic paradises), Look at the Bunny highlights and explores today's techno-totemic environment. In doing so, it explores how nonhuman avatars are increasingly expected to shepherd us beyond our land-locked identities, into a risky - sometimes ecstatic - relationship with the Other.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Hunt Publishing
    Release dateMar 29, 2013
    ISBN9781780991405
    Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology

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