ABSTRACT
In an age of cloning, cyborgs, and biotechnology, the line between bodies and bytes seems to be disappearing. Data Made Flesh is the first collection to address the increasingly important links between information and embodiment, at a moment when we are routinely tempted, in the words of Donna Haraway, "to be raptured out of the bodies that matter in the lust for information," whether in the rush to complete the Human Genome Project or in the race to clone a human being.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|60 pages
Bodies before the Information Age
chapter 1|19 pages
Reading the “Sensible” Body
Medicine, Philosophy, and Semiotics in Eighteenth-Century France
chapter 3|20 pages
Breeding and Training Bastards
Distinction, Information, and Inheritance in Gilded age Trotting Horse Breeding
part 2|113 pages
Control and the New Bodies
part 3|80 pages
Flesh Remembered
