Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life

✍ Scribed by Sarah Kember

Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 270
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life examines the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture. It takes a critical political view of the concept of life as information, tracing this through the new biology and the discourse of genomics as well as through the changing discipline of artificial life and its manifestation in art, language, literature, commerce and entertainment. From cloning to computer games, and incorporating an analysis of hardware, software and 'wetware', Sarah Kember extends current understanding by demonstrating the ways in which this relatively marginal field connects with, and connects up global networks of information systems.Ultimately, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics rather than on the 'nature' of life-as-it-could-be.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Autonomy and artificiality in global networks......Page 14
The meaning of life part 1: the new biology......Page 27
Artificial Life......Page 66
CyberLife's Creatures......Page 96
Network identities......Page 129
The meaning of life part 2: genomics......Page 158
Evolving feminism in Alife environments......Page 188
Beyond the science wars......Page 224
Notes......Page 230
Bibliography......Page 240
Index......Page 256

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