Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life - Tapa blanda

"Kember is to be applauded for demonstrating how cyberfeminism can and must have an ethics, a politcs, and a history, something that has been largely lacking from the field to date....A welcome addition to graduate courses on alife, cyberfeminism, and/or feminist theory, and is certainl a requirement for the library of any scholarly (cyber)feminist.." -National Women's Studies Association Journal

Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life examines the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture. It takes a critical political view of the concept of life as information, tracing this through the new biology and the discourse of genomics as well as through the changing discipline of artificial life and its manifestation in art, language, literature, commerce and entertainment. From cloning to computer games, and incorporating an analysis of hardware, software and 'wetware', Sarah Kember extends current understanding by demonstrating the ways in which this relatively marginal field connects with, and connects up global networks of information systems.
Ultimately, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics rather than on the 'nature' of life-as-it-could-be.