How we became posthuman virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics
In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the ""bodies"" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans ""beamed&...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, Ill. :
University of Chicago Press
1999.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009623521806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Toward Embodied Virtuality; 2. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers; 3. Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics; 4. Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety; 5. From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetic Syntax in Limbo; 6. The Second Wave of Cybernetics: From Reflexivity to Self-Organization; 7. Turning Reality Inside Out and Right Side Out: Boundary Work in the Mid-Sixties Novels of Philip K. Dick; 8. The Materiality of Informatics; 9. Narratives of Artificial Life
- 10. The Semiotics of Virtuality: Mapping the Posthuman11. Conclusion: What Does It Mean to be Posthuman?; Notes; Index
