Leonardo Book Series Release: Metal and Flesh by Ollivier Dyens
24/10/2001
The Leonardo Book Series published by MIT Press is pleased to announce the release of "Metal And Flesh, The Evolution of Man: Technology Takes Over" by Ollivier Dyens, translated by Evan J. Bibbee and Ollivier Dyens.
For more than 3,000 years, humans have explored uncharted geographic and spiritual realms. Present-day explorers face new territories born from the coupling of living tissue and metal, strange lifeforms that are intelligent but unconscious, neither completely alive nor dead. Our bodies are now made of machines, images, and information. We are becoming cultural bodies in a world inhabited by cyborgs, clones, genetically modified animals, and innumerable species of human/information symbionts. Ollivier Dyensís Metal and Flesh is about two closely related phenomena: the technologically induced transformation of our perceptions of the world and the emergence of a cultural biology. Culture, according to Dyens, is taking control of the biosphere. Focusing on the twentieth century--which will be remembered as the century in which the living body was blurred, molded, and transformed by technology and culture--Dyens ruminates on the undeniable and irreversible human/machine entanglement that is changing the very nature of our lives. Ollivier Dyens is Assistant Professor of French at Concordia University in Montreal.
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The Language of new Media, by Lev Manovich
The Robot in the Garden, edited by Ken Goldberg
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