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Wetwares : experiments in postvital living /
A dizzying tour of the ways technologies, both real and imagined, can transform humanity. The mind of the machine, the body suspended in time, organs exchanged, thought computed, genes manipulated, DNA samples abducted by aliens: the terrain between science and speculation, fraught with the possibil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, MN :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Theory out of bounds ;
v. 24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Representing life for a living
- Simflesh, simbones : at play in the artificial life ribotype
- Disciplined by the future : the promising bodies of cryonics
- Give me a body, then : corporeal time-images
- Remains to be seen : a self-extracting amalgam
- Uploading anticipation, becoming silicon
- Dot coma : the dead zone of media and the replication of family values
- Take my bone marrow, please : the community in which we have organs in common
- Wetwares ; or, cutting up a few aliens
- Sympathy for the alien : informatic ecologies and the proliferation of abduction.