Identity / Persona

*note: This page will be developed gradually over time. Contributions will be fully accredited. Links welcome.

• Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction by Scott Bukatman
  (1993, non-fiction...Duke University Press, US)

• Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner
  (1983, non-fiction...Basic Books, New York, US...
  "intelligence as a multiplicity of specialized intelligences, all functioning in parallel." --Sherry Turkle.)

• The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life by Kenneth J.Gergen
  (1991, non-fiction...Basic Books, New York, US)

• Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna Haraway
  (1991, non-fiction...Routledge, New York, US)

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
  (1985, non-fiction... neurology, neuropathology)

• The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit by Sherry Turkle
  (1984, non-fiction...Simon & Schuster, New York, US)

• Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet by Sherry Turkle
  (1995, non-fiction...Simon & Schuster, New York, US)

"Constructions and Reconstructions of the Self in Virtual Reality" by Sherry Turkle
(published in ?, ?... identity, virtual reality)

"A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s" by Donna Haraway
(originally published in Socialist Review 80, March-April 1985... reprinted in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature , 1991)

• In Memoriam to Identity by Kathy Acker
  (1990, narratives...Grove Weidenfeld, New York, US, hbk... *note: all of Kathy Acker's books deal with the topic of identity)

• Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex World Reader by Susie Bright
  (1992, short stories...Cleis Press, US... adult fiction)

• Fools by Pat Cadigan
  (1992, novel, science fiction... multiple personae)

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