Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body

Author:   Phillip Thurtle ,  Robert E. Mitchell
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
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9780295982007


Pages:   80
Publication Date:   01 August 2002
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Phillip Thurtle ,  Robert E. Mitchell
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9780295982007


ISBN 10:   0295982004
Pages:   80
Publication Date:   01 August 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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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"""Semiotic Flesh registers an array of intense engagements between the informatic and the fleshly, in arenas as disparate (or as close) as surgery and performance art, the chemistry of hallucinogens and the chemistry of life.""--Susan Squier, Pennsylvania State University"


Semiotic Flesh registers an array of intense engagements between the informatic and the fleshly, in arenas as disparate (or as close) as surgery and performance art, the chemistry of hallucinogens and the chemistry of life. --Susan Squier, Pennsylvania State University


""Semiotic Flesh registers an array of intense engagements between the informatic and the fleshly, in arenas as disparate (or as close) as surgery and performance art, the chemistry of hallucinogens and the chemistry of life.""--Susan Squier, Pennsylvania State University


Author Information

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.

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