Abstract Sex

Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire

AvLuciana Parisi

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Abstract Sex investigates the impact of advances in contemporary science and information technology on conceptions of sex. Evolutionary theory and the technologies of viral information transfer, cloning and genetic engineering are changing the way we think about human sex, reproduction and the communication of genetic information. Sex is no longer a linear proces or a private act. It is now central to the proliferating world of cyber-capitalism. Humankind has entered a time of molecular sex, when information is traded not only across sexes but across species and between humans and machines. Abstract Sex presents a philosophical exploration of this new world of sexual, informatic and capitalistic multiplicity, and of the accelerated mutation of nature and culture. Luciana Parisi is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Cultures in the Department of Cultural Studies, University of East London.

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Utgivningsdatum:2004-05-01
Mått:154 x 232 x 14 mm
Vikt:380 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Transversals: New Directions in Philosophy
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826469908

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Luciana Parisi lectures at the University of East London.

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'...Her vision, and it is a vision, is literally a molecular one in which sex is instantiated in any number of biologically, cultutally and technologically define assemblages...Abstract Sex does a good job of developing a productive critique of the anthropomorphic assumptions of much theorising about sex and gender and its technique of magnifying the place of sex and reproduction onto every stratum of nature-culture is a useful reminder of the relatively limited place of human sex across life forms.'

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