Wetwares
Subtitle: experiments in postvital living
By: Richard Doyle.
Series: Theory out of bounds -- 24.; Theory out of bounds -- v. 24.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Artificial life.; Life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Welcome to Wetwares; title: Representing life for a living; title: Simflesh, simbones : at play in the artificial life ribotype; title: Disciplined by the future : the promising bodies of cryonics; title: "Give me a body, then" : corporeal time-images; title: "Remains to be seen" : a self-extracting amalgam; title: Uploading anticipation, becoming silicon; title: Dot coma : the dead zone of media and the replication of family values; title: "Take my bone marrow, please" : the community in which we have organs in common; title: Wetwares ; or, cutting up a few aliens; title: Sympathy for the alien : informatic ecologies and the proliferation of abduction.