Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction : (Record no. 41363)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9789401202701 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9789042019485 |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1163/9789401202701 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)70825533 |
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| Classification number | T173.8 |
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| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 303.48/3 |
| Edition information | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | II, William S. Haney, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction : |
| Remainder of title | Consciousness and the Posthuman / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | William S. Haney II. |
| 246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | Consciousness and the Posthuman |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Leiden; |
| -- | Boston : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Brill | Rodopi, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2006. |
| 300 ## - online resource | |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ; |
| Volume/sequential designation | 2 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Preliminary Material -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Consciousness and the Posthuman -- Chapter 2: The Latent Powers of Consciousness vs. Bionic Humans -- Chapter 3: Derrida's Indian Literary Subtext -- Chapter 4: Consciousness and the Posthuman in Short Fiction -- Chapter 5: Frankenstein: The Monster's Constructedness and the Narrativity of Consciousness -- Chapter 6: William Gibson's Neuromancer: Technological Ambiguity -- Chapter 7: Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash: Humans are not Computers -- Chapter 8: Haruki Murakami' s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: Unicorns, Elephants and Immortality -- Chapter 9: Cyborg Revelations: Marge Piercy's He, She and It -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: The Survival of Human Nature -- Works Cited -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Addressing a key issue related to human nature, this book argues that the first-person experience of pure consciousness may soon be under threat from posthuman biotechnology. In exploiting the mind's capacity for instrumental behavior, posthumanists seek to extend human experience by physically projecting the mind outward through the continuity of thought and the material world, as through telepresence and other forms of prosthetic enhancements. Posthumanism envisions a biology/machine symbiosis that will promote this extension, arguably at the expense of the natural tendency of the mind to move toward pure consciousness. As each chapter of this book contends, by forcibly overextending and thus jeopardizing the neurophysiology of consciousness, the posthuman condition could in the long term undermine human nature, defined as the effortless capacity for transcending the mind's conceptual content. Presented here for the first time, the essential argument of this book is more than a warning; it gives a direction: far better to practice patience and develop pure consciousness and evolve into a higher human being than to fall prey to the Faustian temptations of biotechnological power. As argued throughout the book, each person must choose for him or herself between the technological extension of physical experience through mind, body and world on the one hand, and the natural powers of human consciousness on the other as a means to realize their ultimate vision. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Biotechnology |
| General subdivision | Social aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Consciousness |
| General subdivision | Social aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Mind and body. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Title | Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction : Consciousness and the Posthuman, |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2006 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789042019485 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ; |
| Volume/sequential designation | 2. |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Public note | DOI: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401202701">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401202701</a> |
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