Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire
Luciano Parisi
(Author)
Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$70.74
Publisher
Continnuum-3PL
Publish Date
April 23, 2004
Pages
240
Dimensions
6.32 X 9.34 X 0.72 inches | 0.82 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780826469908
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Luciana Parisi lectures at the University of East London.
Reviews
"I deeply appreciate Parisi's vigorous and unapologetic engagement with scientific theories and evidence."
-Myra J. Hird, Feminist Studies, Vol. 35, Summer 2009
'...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.'--Sanford Lakoff
-Myra J. Hird, Feminist Studies, Vol. 35, Summer 2009
'...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.'--Sanford Lakoff