Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information
In an age of cloning, cyborgs, and biotechnology, the line between bodies and bytes seems to be disappearing. Data Made Flesh is the first collection to address the increasingly important links between information and embodiment, at a moment when we are routinely tempted, in the words of Donna Haraway, "to be raptured out of the bodies that matter in the lust for information," whether in the rush to complete the Human Genome Project or in the race to clone a human being.
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Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information
In an age of cloning, cyborgs, and biotechnology, the line between bodies and bytes seems to be disappearing. Data Made Flesh is the first collection to address the increasingly important links between information and embodiment, at a moment when we are routinely tempted, in the words of Donna Haraway, "to be raptured out of the bodies that matter in the lust for information," whether in the rush to complete the Human Genome Project or in the race to clone a human being.
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Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information

Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information

Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information

Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information

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Overview

In an age of cloning, cyborgs, and biotechnology, the line between bodies and bytes seems to be disappearing. Data Made Flesh is the first collection to address the increasingly important links between information and embodiment, at a moment when we are routinely tempted, in the words of Donna Haraway, "to be raptured out of the bodies that matter in the lust for information," whether in the rush to complete the Human Genome Project or in the race to clone a human being.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415969055
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/06/2003
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 300
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Phillip Thurtle is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Robert Mitchell is Assistant Professor of English at Duke University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction. Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell. Data Made Flesh: The Material Poiesis of Informatics Part One. Bodies Before the Information Age 1. Anne C. Vila. Reading the Sensible Body: Medicine, Philosophy, and Semiotics in Eighteenth Century France 2. Elisabeth Le Guin. Man and Horse in Harmony 3. Phillip Thurtle. Bastard Birth: Middle Class Mores and the Rise of Genetic Rationality Part Two. Control and the New Bodies: Modes of Informational Experience 4. Mark Poster. Fused Desire: Bodies, Families, and Information Machines 5. Rich Doyle. LSDNA: Consciousness Expansion and the Emergence of Biotechnology 6. Robert Mitchell. $ell: Body Wastes, Information, and Commodities 7. Tim Lenoir. The Virtual Surgeon: New Practices for an Age of Medialization 8. Mary Flanagan. The Bride Stripped Bare To Her Data: information flow + digibodies 9. Kathleen Woodward. A Feeling for the Cyborg Part Three: Flesh Remembered: Art, Information, and Bodies 10. Bernadette Wegenstein. If you won't SHOOT me, at least DELETE me! Performance Art from '60ies Wounds to '90ies Extensions 11. N. Katherine Hayles. Flesh and Metal: Reconfiguring the Mindbody in Virtual Environments 12. Steve Tomasula. Gene(sis) 13. Eduardo Kac. Transgenic Art Online 14. Robin Held. Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics Biography Index
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