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...
| Publicado en: | Western Humanities Review Vol. 73; no. 3; pp. 151 - 179 |
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Western Humanities Review
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