Wetwares : experiments in postvital living / Richard Doyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doyle, Richard, 1963-

Series:

Theory out of bounds ; v. 24.

Theory out of bounds ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial life.

Life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

New ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wetwares ranges over recent research in artificial life, cloning, cryonics, computer science, organ transplantation, and alien abduction. Moving between actual technical practices, serious speculative technology, and science fiction, Doyle shows us emerging scientific paradigms where "life" becomes more a matter of information than of inner vitality-in short, becomes "wetwares" for DNA and computer networks.

Contents:

Representing life for a living

Simflesh, simbones : at play in the artificial life ribotype

Disciplined by the future : the promising bodies of cryonics

Give me a body, then : corporeal time-images

Remains to be seen : a self-extracting amalgam

Uploading anticipation, becoming silicon

Dot coma : the dead zone of media and the replication of family values

Take my bone marrow, please : the community in which we have organs in common

Wetwares ; or, cutting up a few aliens

Sympathy for the alien : informatic ecologies and the proliferation of abduction.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-230) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9401-X

OCLC:

476095299