Semiotic Flesh - Information and the Human Body

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Phillip Thurtle and Robert E. Mitchell Klappentext Phillip Thurtle is a lecturer in the School of Communications and the Comparative History of Ideas Program at the University of Washington, where he is co-director of the New Media Research Lab. Robert E. Mitchell is a lecturer in comparative literature at the University of Washington. Contributors include Richard Doyle, N. Katherine Hayles, Timothy Lenoir, Peter Oppenheimer, Steven Shaviro, and Kathleen Woodward. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Fleshy Data: Semiotics, Information, and the Body--Robert Mitchell and Phillip Thurtle 1. LSDNA: Consciousness Expansion and the Emergence of Biotechnology--Richard Doyle --Response--Steven Shaviro 2. The Virtual Surgeon: Operating on the Data in an Age of Medialization--Timothy Lenoir --Response--Peter Oppenheimer 3. Flesh and Metal: Reconfiguring the Mindbody in Virtual Environments--N. Katherine Hayles --Response--Kathleen Woodward

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• Authors: Phillip Mitchell Thurtle
• Assisted by: Robert E Mitchell (Editor), Robert E. Mitchell (Editor), Robert Edward Mitchell (Editor), Phillip Thurtle (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2016
• EAN: 9780295741864
• ISBN: 978-0-295-74186-4
• No. of pages: 80
• Series: Semiotic Flesh
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT