Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information

by Mitchell,Robert

• ISBN13: 9780415969048
• ISBN10: 0415969042
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In an age of cloning, cyborgs, and biotechnology, the line between bodies and bytes seems to be disappearing.Data Made Fleshis 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 Haraway, "to be raptured out of the bodies that matter in the lust for information," whether in the rush to complete the Human Genome Project or in the race to clone a human being. From cybernetics to genomics, this timely collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the fate of the body at the cutting edge of technology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction Data Made Flesh: The Material Poiesis of Informatics	1	(26)
PHILLIP THURTLE AND ROBERT MITCHELL
Part I: Bodies Before the Information Age
1 Reading the "Sensible" Body: Medicine, Philosophy, and Semiotics in Eighteenth-Century France	27	(20)
ANNE C. VILA
2 Man and Horse in Harmony	47	(18)
ELISABETH LEGUIN
3 Breeding and Training Bastards: Distinction, Information, and Inheritance in Gilded Age Trotting Horse Breeding	65	(22)
PHILLIP THURTLE
Part II: Control and the New Bodies: Modes of Informational Experience
4 Desiring Information and Machines	87	(16)
MARK POSTER
5 LSDNA: Consciousness Expansion and the Emergence of Biotechnology	103	(18)
RICHARD DOYLE
6 $ell: Body Wastes, Information, and Commodification	121	(16)
ROBERT MITCHELL
7 The Virtual Surgeon: New Practices for an Age of Medialization	137	(16)
TIMOTHY LENOIR
8 The Bride Stripped Bare to Her Data: Information Flow + Digibodies	153	(28)
MARY FLANAGAN
9 A Feeling for the Cyborg	181	(20)
KATHLEEN WOODWARD
Part III: Flesh Remembered: Art, Information, and Bodies
10 If You Won't SHOOT Me, At Least DELETE Me! Performance Art from 1960's Wounds to 1990's Extensions	201	(28)
BERNADETTE WEGENSTEIN
11 Flesh and Metal: Reconfiguring the Mindbody in Virtual Environments	229	(20)
N. KATHERINE HAYLES
12 Gene(sis)	249	(10)
STEVE TOMASULA
13 Transgenic Art Online	259	(4)
EDUARDO KAC
14 Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics	263	(16)
ROBIN HELD
The Editors and Contributors	279	(4)
Index	283