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Computing Human Identity in Greg Egan’s Permutation City.

A literary criticism of the book "Permutation City" by Greg Egan is presented. It examine its provocative re-imagining of humanism; mentions the human subject as an open-ended engineering project that necessitates continual revisionary technological interventions; and also mentions that brain scanni...

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Published in:Western Humanities Review Vol. 73; no. 3; pp. 151 - 179
Main Author: Camara, Anthony
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: Western Humanities Review Fall2019
Subjects:
Permutation City (Book)
Egan, Greg, 1961-
Humanism
Technological innovations
Virtual reality
Brain imaging
21st century (Literary period)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:A literary criticism of the book "Permutation City" by Greg Egan is presented. It examine its provocative re-imagining of humanism; mentions the human subject as an open-ended engineering project that necessitates continual revisionary technological interventions; and also mentions that brain scanning and instantiating duplicate virtual reality (VR) bodies are crucial technologies of replication necessary for the creation of copies in the novel.