Technologics
Subtitle: Ghosts, the Incalculable, and the Suspension of Animation (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780791463031
Subjects: Cultural studies; Impact of science & technology on society; Sociology; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Technology & Industrial Arts; Literary Criticism; Technology; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Semiotics & Theory; Social Aspects; General
First sentence: Cloning, the immortality of the reproduction of the same, has always been the openly secret dream of homo phantasticus, but such dreaming, in the dominant history of the west, has been subsumed by the logic of the drive for the rational explication and used of the world that we have come to call metaphysics.