Metal and Flesh The Evolution of Man: Technology Takes Over

Name: Metal and Flesh The Evolution of Man: Technology Takes Over
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ISBN: 9780262042000

ISBN-10: 0262042002

ISBN-13: 9780262042000

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ollivier Dyens, Evan J. Bibbee, Evan J. Bibbee

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For more than 3,000 years, humans have explored uncharted geographic and spiritual realms. Present-day explorers face new territories born from the coupling of living tissue and metal, strange lifeforms that are intelligent but unconscious, neither completely alive nor dead. Our bodies are now made of machines, images, and information. We are becoming cultural bodies in a world inhabited by cyborgs, clones, genetically modified animals, and innumerable species of human/information symbionts. Ollivier Dyensrsquo;s Metal and Fleshis about two closely related phenomena: the technologically induced transformation of our perceptions of the world and the emergence of a cultural biology. Culture,…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/12/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 134
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Ollivier Dyens is an associate professor at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of numerous books, including Les Murs des planetes suivi de La cathï¿½Zdrale aveugle (VLB ï¿½fditeur), short listed for the Prix de poï¿½Zsie Terrasses Saint-Sulpice de la revue Estuaire, Continent X, Vertige du Nouvel Occident (VLB ï¿½fditeur), long listed for the Prix Roberval, Metal and Flesh, The Evolution of Man, Technology takes over (MIT Press) whose French version was awarded Best Essay from La Sociï¿½Ztï¿½Z des ï¿½Zcrivains canadiens, Les Betes (ï¿½fditions Triptyque), and Navigations technologiques (VLB ï¿½fditeur).



Series Foreword


Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Crater in the Yucatan


Origin: The Intelligent Condition


New Readings


The Technological Reality


The Cultural Biology


The Desire of Culture


The Living Idea


The Conscience of Cyberspace


The Environment of Technology


The Virtual Being


Sadness of the Machine



More or Less Alive


Viruses


Life/Machine Osmosis


The Cognitive Ecology


Metaman


Identity and Network



The Rise of Cultural Bodies


Body's Plasticity: Wells, Kafka, Orwell


The Plastic Body of Dr. Moreau


Kafka, The Metamorphosis Machine


"We are the dead"


Cyberpunks: Body Terrorists


New Models of the Body


Monsters, Cyborgs, and Extraterrestrials


Conclusion: Cruel Miracles


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index