The tele-technics of agency, the Net, the urban and sex tourism

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ID2992885
AuthorsR Bishop (0000-0003-0164-3457, National University of Singapore, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume14
Issue3
Pages349-361
Publication date2008-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Identities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1350-4630 • E-ISSN: 1363-0296
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13504630802088243
OpenAlexW2028866658
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited2

This paper examines the effects of various tele-technologies (technologies at a distance) on the subject-object relationship within a context of Western conceptualizations about agency, self-other, and thought in relation to action. To examine these effects, the article uses the Internet postings of sex tourists as well as an example of ubiquitous media and screen culture in the form of a Hollywood film. How the loss of writing at a spatial and temporal distance influences these sex tourists, as well as how mass media (cinema) merge anxieties about the subject-object relationship with concerns about the status of individual agency supposedly enhanced by these tele-technologies is considered in the light of how thought has been constructed and understood from the early twentieth century to the present. The media through which thought and action are mediated become the focus of the inquiry

Aesthetics · Art · Hollywood · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · Tourism · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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