TY - BOOK AU - Dyens,Ollivier TI - Metal and flesh: the evolution of man : technology takes over T2 - Leonardo SN - 0262042002 AV - HM846 .D9413 2001 U1 - 306.46 21 PY - 2001///] CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Technology KW - Social aspects KW - Human body KW - Technology and civilization KW - Cybernetics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-114) and index; Foreword; Joel Slayton --; 1; The Crater in the Yucatan; Origin: The Intelligent Condition; New Readings; The Technological Reality; The Cultural Biology; The Desire of Culture; The Living Idea; The Conscience of Cyberspace; The Environment of Technology; The Virtual Being; Sadness of the Machine --; 2; More or Less Alive; Viruses; Life/Machine Osmosis; The Cognitive Ecology; Metaman; Identity and Network --; 3; The Rise of Cultural Bodies; Body's Plasticity: Wells, Kafka, Orwell; The Plastic Body of Dr. Moreau; Kafka, The Metamorphosis Machine; "We are the dead"; Cyberpunks: Body Terrorists; New Models of the Body; Monsters, Cyborgs, and Extraterrestrials; Conclusion: Cruel Miracles ER -