Data made flesh : embodying information / edited by Robert Mitchell and Phillip Thurtle.
In an age of cloning, cyborgs, and biotechnology, the line between bodies and bytes seems to be disappearing. Data Made Flesh is the first collection to address the increasingly important links between information and embodiment, at a moment when we are routinely tempted, in the words of Donna Haraw...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Data made flesh : the material poiesis of informatics / Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell
- Reading the "sensible" body : medicine, philosophy, and semiotics in eighteenth-century France / Anne C. Vila
- Man and horse in harmony / Elisabeth Leguin
- Breeding and training bastards : distinction, information, and inheritance in gilded age trotting horse breeding / Phillip Thurtle
- Desiring information and machines / Mark Poster
- LSDNA : consciousness expansion and the emergence of biotechnology / Richard Doyle
- $ell : body wastes, information, and commodification / Robert Mitchell.
- The virtual surgeon : new practices for an age of medialization / Timothy Lenoir
- The bride stripped bare to her data : information flow + digibodies / Mary Flanagan
- A feeling for the cyborg / Kathleen Woodward
- If you won't shoot me, at least delete me! Performance art from 1960s wounds to 1990s extensions / Bernadette Wegenstein
- Flesh and metal : reconfiguring the mindbody in virtual environments / N. Katherine Hayles
- Gene(sis) / Steve Tomasula
- Transgenic art online / Eduardo Kac
- Gene(sis) : contemporary art explores human genomics / Robin Held.