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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Publicado en:Western Humanities Review Vol. 73; no. 3; pp. 151 - 179
Autor principal: Camara, Anthony
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Western Humanities Review Fall2019
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