About this title: We're not the people we thought we were a few decades ago, this book argues. Not only have we been surrounded by a new technological landscape, but our very subjectivity has been transformed since information became something disembodied and virtual rather than something always embedded in a human subject. This change in the way information is imagined went hand in hand with the development of cyborg and artificial life, to create what the author calls our "posthuman" culture. The book makes its case through investigations of science fiction, laboratory experiments, and cybernetic theory.
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Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 1999-02-15
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Date Published: 1999
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Date Published: 1999
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Description: New. 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 o... read more
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Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1999
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Description: New. Separating hype from fact, this text investigates the fate of embodiment in an information age. It relates three issues: information as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the construction of the Cyborg; and the dismantling of th... read more
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Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. 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" "Star Trek"-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in ... read more
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"Theory book on cybernetics. I found it particularly inspiring in thinking about myself as a disabled person. It's way cooler to be a cyborg than use the word disabled. And the ways that we depend on machinery to construct our humanity grows and grows every day. The freakishness of disability is minimized by the minute, as we all wrap ourselves in metal."
"i read this book as a senior in college in preparation for my thesis, which was basically about issues of selfhood and agency in a deterministic universe. it was, at the time, one of the most difficult books i'd ever read and, correspondingly, one of the most satisfying. the language can be difficult-- it's a literary critic analyzing systems analysis, for goodness sake-- if you don't have a pretty firm grasp of academese, it will not be easy going. but having mined it, i not only learned just a ton about the movement of scientific thought in the 20th century (particularly the VERY difficult and VERY important move from a deterministic world-view to a probabalistic one), but found these little gems, which i added to my intellectual tool kit and have been thinking with and about ever since: the platonic backhand and the the platonic forehand.
"The platonic backhand works by inferring from the world's noisy multiplicity a simplified abstraction. so far so good: this is what theorizing should do. the problem comes when the move circles around to constitute the abstraction as the originary form from which the world's multiplicity derives. then complexity appears as a 'fuzzing up' of an essential reality..." (Hayles, 1999, pp. 12-13).
anyway, this is a somewhat esoteric and challenging book, but if you're interested in thinking about consciousness, whether as a philosopher, biologists, computer scientist, psychologist- whatever- i highly recommend this one. and if you have dreams of uploading yourself onto a harddrive, existing bodyless in cyberspace, or living forever in a silicone body, it is absolutely required reading."
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