Posthuman Agency in the Digitally Mediated City: Exteriorization, Individuation, Reinvention

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 779-793

  Rose, Gillian ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

difference; digital; feminist; posthuman; Stiegler

Indexed keywords

FEMINISM; PHILOSOPHY; PUBLIC SPACE; URBAN AREA;

EID: 85015259220     PISSN: 24694452     EISSN: 24694460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2016.1270195     Document Type: Article

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