Cyberfeminism And Artificial Life

Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life examines construction manipulation and redefinition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture. It takes acritical polit... » 

Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life examines construction manipulation and redefinition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture. It takes acritical political view of the concept of life as information tracing thisthrough the new biology and the changing discipline of artificial life and itsmanifestation in art language literature commerce and entertainment. Fromcloning to computer games and incorporating an analysis of hardware softwareand wetware Sarah Kember demonstrates how this relatively marginal fieldconnects with and connects up global networks of information systems.As well as offering suggestions for the evolution of cyberfeminism in Alifeenvironments the author identifies the emergence of posthumanism an ethics ofthe posthuman subject mobilized in the tension between cold war and postcoldwar politics psychological and biological machines centralized and decentralized control topdown and bottomup processing autonomous andautopoietic organisms cloning and transgenesis speciesself and otherspecies. Ultimately this book aims to refocus concern on the ethics ratherthan on the nature of lifeasitcouldbe. «