Makeover: Writing the Body into the Posthuman Technoscape Part One: Embracing the Posthuman.
The article focuses on various aspects of transformation of human into a new construction called posthuman. The fear that technological developments associated with computer technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and nanotechnology will succeed in displacing humanity through an evolutionary...
| Publicado en: | Configurations Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 203 - 221 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Spring2002
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