Abstract Sex
Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2004
240 pages
978-1-84714-034-0 (ISBN)
Description
Astract 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.
Abstract Sex presents a philosophical exploration of this new world of sexual, informatic and capitalist multiplicity, of the accelerated mutation of nature and culture.
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.
Abstract Sex presents a philosophical exploration of this new world of sexual, informatic and capitalist multiplicity, of the accelerated mutation of nature and culture.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-84714-034-0 (9781847140340)
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Luciana Parisi lectures at the University of East London.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Diagram
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Abstract Sex
- 1 Virtual Sex
- Introduction
- The bio-technological impact
- Abstract sex
- Stratification
- The essence of a body
- Microfeminine particle-forces
- 2 Symbiotic Sex
- Introduction
- Genealogical difference
- Cracks on the organic strata
- Nucleic expression
- Symbiosex
- 3 Parthenogenic Sex
- Introduction
- Disciplinary entropy
- Organic capital
- Sex and death: the media of fluid reproduction
- Mutant sex
- 4 Biodigital Sex
- Introduction
- The threshold
- Machinic capital
- The schizophrenic egg
- Incorporeal transformations
- 5 Hypernature: A diagram of molecular modifications
- Introduction
- Microbial sex
- Aquatic sex
- Turbo sex
- Hypernature
- Conclusion
- Microfeminine warfare
- Glossary
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- M
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
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