Semiotic Flesh
Information and the Human Body
$59.48
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2002
Summary
For much of the 20th century, an apparently solid conceptual wall allowed us to separate information and bodies. Yet in the last few decades, it has become increasingly clear that this conceptual wall leaks - bodies and information will not stay separate from one another. Data have become flesh just as flesh has become data. Semiotic Flesh marks an important contribution to the emerging field of information studies, providing multiple perspectives on the implications of burgeoning information…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780295982007 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0295982004 |
| Author: | Phillip Thurtle, Robert E. Mitchell |
| Publisher: | University of Washington Press |
| Imprint: | University of Washington Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 178mm |
| Series: | Semiotic Flesh |
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Critics Review
“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
About The Author
Phillip Thurtle
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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