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Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life

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ISBN-10: 0415240263

ISBN-13: 9780415240260

Edition: 2003

Authors: Sarah Kember

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Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life examines construction, manipulation and redefinition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture.
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Book details

List price: $160.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/12/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Sarah Kember is Professor of New Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London, and author, most recently, of The Optical Effects of Lightning.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Autonomy and artificiality in global networks
ALife in context, or, the 'return to Darwin'
Network bioethics
The meaning of life part 1: the new biology
Evolutionary biology-all about chickens and eggs
The metaphor of life as information
Biology as ideology-reductionism and determinism
Molecular biology-an endgame
Sociobiology and eugenics
Evolutionary psychology and the 'Darwin Wars'
Artificial Life
'Information Wants to be Alive!'
The philosophy and biology of ALife
ALife's autonomous agents
ALife's non-vitalist vitalism
Spaces of dissent
The future of ALife-consolidating (digital) naturalism
CyberLife's Creatures
SimWorlds-ALife and computer games
Stirring the primordial soup
The Creation part 1: making worlds
The Creation part 2: making life
Cain's creation
Creatures
Playing the game
Creatures on the Internet
CyberLife-selling ALife
CyberLife Research Limited-or 'real' ALife
Network identities
Artificial agents
HAL
Situated and autonomous robots
Bots
ALife aesthetics
Artificial cultures
Artificial societies
Artificial subjects
The meaning of life part 2: genomics
Artificial life as wetware
The species-self
Confessions of a justified sinner
The self as other
The other species
Evolving feminism in Alife environments
Alife-as-we-know-it
Natureculture
Risk
Pengi and the Expressivator
Alife-as-it-could-be
Autopoiesis and autonomy
Embodying Alife
Towards situating Alife
Beyond the science wars
Notes
Bibliography
Index