Wetwares experiments in postvital living / Richard Doyle.

Author/creator Doyle, Richard, 1963-
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003.
Description235 pages ; 26 cm.
Subjects

SeriesTheory out of bounds ; 24
Theory out of bounds ; v. 24. ^A315133
Contents Welcome to Wetwares -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-231) and index.
LCCN 2002155306
ISBN0816640084 (alk. paper)
ISBN0816640092 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BD418.8 .D69 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold