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Download or read book Metal and Flesh written by Ollivier Dyens and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-10-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic exploration of the new world created by the collision of the biological body with technology and culture. For more than 3,000 years, humans have explored uncharted geographic and spiritual realms. Present-day explorers face new territories born from the coupling of living tissue and metal, strange lifeforms that are intelligent but unconscious, neither completely alive nor dead. Our bodies are now made of machines, images, and information. We are becoming cultural bodies in a world inhabited by cyborgs, clones, genetically modified animals, and innumerable species of human/information symbionts. Ollivier Dyens's Metal and Flesh is about two closely related phenomena: the technologically induced transformation of our perceptions of the world and the emergence of a cultural biology. Culture, according to Dyens, is taking control of the biosphere. Focusing on the twentieth century—which will be remembered as the century in which the living body was blurred, molded, and transformed by technology and culture—Dyens ruminates on the undeniable and irreversible human/machine entanglement that is changing the very nature of our lives.
Download or read book Flesh to Metal written by Rolf Hellebust and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "That science-fiction future in which technology would make everything very good—or very bad—has not yet arrived. From our vantage point at least, no age appears to have had a deeper faith in the inevitability and imminence of such a total technological transformation than the early twentieth century. Russia was no exception."—from the introduction In the Soviet Union, it seems, armoring oneself against the world did not suffice—it was best to become metal itself. In his engaging and accessible book, Rolf Hellebust explores the aesthetic and ideological function of the metallization of the revolutionary body as revealed in Soviet literature, art, and politics. His book shows how the significance of this modern myth goes far beyond the immediate issue of the enthusiasm with which the Bolsheviks welcomed such a symbolic transfiguration and that of our own uneasy attraction to the images of metal flesh and machine-men. Hellebust's literary examples range from the famous (Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago) to the forgotten (early Soviet proletarian poets). To these he adds a mix of non-Russian references, from creation myths to comic book superheroes, medieval alchemy to Moby-Dick. He includes readings of posters, sculpture, and political discourse as well as cross-cultural comparisons to revolutionary France, industrial-age America, and Nazi Germany. The result is a fascinating portrait of the ultimate symbols of dehumanizing modernity, as refracted through the prism of utopian humanism.
Book Synopsis Girl of Flesh and Metal by : Alicia Ellis
Download or read book Girl of Flesh and Metal written by Alicia Ellis and published by Figmented Ink. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devastating accident. An artificially intelligent prosthetic that makes her sleepwalk… A series of murders. Lena hates her parents’ tech company. The world worships each cutting-edge CyberCorp release, but Lena has her doubts. Machines that think for themselves? She doesn’t trust them… So when a car accident lands her with the company’s first cybernetic arm, she’s pissed. A glitch in the arm’s artificial intelligence makes her sleepwalk. Meanwhile, children of CyberCorp employees start dying in their beds, and thanks to her unwanted nighttime strolls, Lena has no alibi. Is she a target? A suspect? Lena literally can't sleep at night until she proves her innocence—or her guilt. Marissa Meyer’s Cinder meets Netflix’s Black Mirror in this YA sci-fi murder mystery with a twisty ending you won't forget. Don't miss the first ever self-published book to make the American Library Association’s LITA Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists.
Book Synopsis Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh by : Jay Lake
Download or read book Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh written by Jay Lake and published by Prime Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markus Selvage has been bent by life, ground up and spit out again. In San Francisco's darkest sexual underground, he is a perpetual innocent, looking within bodies -- his own and others' -- for the lost secrets of satisfaction. But extreme body modification is only the beginning of where he will go before he's finished...
Book Synopsis Clash of Flesh and Metal by : Alicia Ellis
Download or read book Clash of Flesh and Metal written by Alicia Ellis and published by Figmented Ink. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She must obey a stranger's orders, or the androids will attack again… Despite Lena's fears about the dangers of the Model One androids, CyberCorp has shipped them to customers. They work perfectly—except around Lena. When an android attacks one of her best friends, she insists the robots are fatally flawed. Desperate to keep this situation from spiraling out of control, like it did last time, Lena casts suspicion on everyone she knows. This time, she won't trust anyone. When she gets a threatening note from someone claiming to be controlling the androids, she'll obey—but only to stall for time. Can she find whoever's responsible, before someone else she loves dies?
Download or read book Flesh and Steel written by Guy Haley and published by Warhammer Crime. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Warhammer Crime novel, set in the sprawling Warhammer 40,000 metropolis of Varangantua... Born into riches, Probator Symeon Noctis attempts to atone for his past sins by championing the powerless of Nearsteel district. But the sprawling city of Varangantua is uncaring of its masses, and when a bisected corpse is discovered in the neutral zone between Nearsteel and the Adeptus Mechanicus enclave of Steelmound, Noctis finds himself cast into his most dangerous case yet. Partnering with the tech-priest Rho-1 Lux of the Collegiate Extremis, Noctis is drawn into a murky world of tech-heresy, illegal servitors and exploitation that could end his career, or his life.
Download or read book Flesh and Metal written by Man and published by Eurotica. This book was released on 2005-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a not too distant future, cyborgs rule the earth in a society filled with vice, corruption and murder, the powerful few exploiting the masses of humans. Knowing which is which is not easy, however, and the seduction of the perfect dream bodies of the humanoid robots is very strong indeed. Man vs. machine in a sex showdown!"--Cover.
Download or read book Of Metal and Wishes written by Sarah Fine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Guards of the Shadowlands series comes a love story for the ages, set in a reimagined industrial Asia, in which a 16-year-old girl is torn between her love for an oppressed factory worker and appeasing the ghost who is determined to protect her against any threat.
Book Synopsis Data Made Flesh by : Robert Mitchell
Download or read book Data Made Flesh written by Robert Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis In Flesh and Spirit by : Baron Misuraca
Download or read book In Flesh and Spirit written by Baron Misuraca and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vamipre book
Book Synopsis Metal Rules the Globe by : Jeremy Wallach
Download or read book Metal Rules the Globe written by Jeremy Wallach and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heavy metal might not have been the most likely popular music genre to become global, but it has. This collection brings together cultural studies and pop music accounts of metal around the world, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, Brazil, Malta, Slovenia, China, Japan, Norway, Israel, Easter Island, and more.
Book Synopsis The Silver Metal Lover by : Tanith Lee
Download or read book The Silver Metal Lover written by Tanith Lee and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For sixteen-year-old Jane, life is a mystery she despairs of ever mastering. She and her friends are the idle, pampered children of the privileged class, living in luxury on an Earth remade by natural disaster. Until Jane's life is changed forever by a chance encounter with a robot minstrel with auburn hair and silver skin, whose songs ignite in her a desperate and inexplicable passion. Jane is certain that Silver is more than just a machine built to please. And she will give up everything to prove it. So she escapes into the city's violent, decaying slums to embrace a love bordering on madness. Or is it something more? Has Jane glimpsed in Silver something no one else has dared to see - not even the robot or his creators? A love so perfect it must be destroyed, for no human could ever compete?
Download or read book Test of Metal written by Matthew Stover and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Downtrodden and powerless, Planeswalker Tezzeret must do everything he can to return to his former glory—even if it means relying on old enemies From the ashes of defeat, Tezzeret rises again. Beaten to within an inch of his life and left for dead by the psychic sorcerer Jace Beleren, Tezzeret has lost control of the Infinite Consortium—an interplanar cabal he commanded with a power and influence few in the Multiverse have ever achieved. Now he must turn to a former enemy for help: the dragon Nicol Bolas, perhaps the only Planeswalker in the Multiverse powerful enough to get him back on his feet. Bolas, however, has his reservations. What can Tezzeret give him that he doesn’t already have? So begins Tezzeret’s search for the secret of etherium—a magical alloy infused with all the power of the Blind Eternities—thought to have been lost with the disappearance of the great sphinx, Crucius the Mad. Tezzeret’s quest is clear, but his thirst for revenge clouds his decisions. Will he achieve his goal, or will he be bested by his own ambition?
Book Synopsis Metals and Man by : Mikhail Vasilyev
Download or read book Metals and Man written by Mikhail Vasilyev and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells about metals, both about such well-known metals as iron, copper and aluminum, and about those whose name is not familiar to everyone, such as cerium, gadolinium, tantalum.You will read about the magic properties of titanium, the young rival of iron, about uranium, a new fuel for power plants, about tungsten, the strongest and most refractory member of the metal family, and, in general, about all the eighty metals existing in nature.At the same time this book is about man, his great power over metals, and his ability to transform rusty stones and ores into metal articles.
Book Synopsis Shadowrun Chrome Flesh (Limited Edition) by : Catalyst Game Labs
Download or read book Shadowrun Chrome Flesh (Limited Edition) written by Catalyst Game Labs and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadowrunners cannot be limited by what their bodies canor cannotdo. They have to do more, stretch farther, surpass any limits, and accomplish the impossible. Some runners can rely on magic; for everyone else, there are augmentations. From shiny chrome that makes your body into a humanoid semitruck to genetech that alters you at the most fundamental level to drugs and chemicals that give you a quick and dirty boost, Chrome Flesh provides dozens of new ways to alter Shadowrun characters and make them better, stronger, faster, and altogether readier to kick ass and take names on the streets. Along with the gear and a compiled table of all cyberware, bioware, genetech, and nanotech currently available in Shadowrun, Fifth Edition, Chrome Flesh covers how runners break down and what resources can help fix them up, and where augmentation tech might go in the future. It's paydata every shadowrunner needs if they want to overcome everything the Sixth World is going to throw at them.
Download or read book Zippered Flesh 2 written by Weldon Burge and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, you loved the first ZIPPERED FLESH anthology? Well, here are yet more tales of body enhancements that have gone horribly wrong Steroids from Hell. Horrendous piercings. Bizarre brain modifications. Obscene amputations. Facial reconstruction. Self-mutilation. Implants. Chilling tales by some of the best horror and suspense writers today, determined to keep you fearful all night (and skittish during the day). Bryan Hall - The Modern Adonis Shaun Meeks - Taut Lisa Mannetti - The Hunger Artist Carson Buckingham - Skin Deep Christine Morgan - The Sun-Snake Kate Monroe - Knowledge Daniel I. Russell - Prosthetics M.L. Roos - After Darque Rick Hudson - The Affair of the Jade Dragon JM Reinbold - The Future of Flesh E.A. Black - We're All Mad Here L.L. Soares - Seeds Doug Blakeslee - Perfection Kealan Patrick Burke - Underneath A.P. Sessler - The Perfect Size David Benton & W.D. Gagliani - Piper at the Gates Jonathan Templar - BabyDaddy Christian A. Larsen - The Little Things Shaun Jeffrey - Clockwork Jezzy Wolfe - Luscious Charles Colyott - Rapture Michael Bailey - Primal Tongue
Download or read book Flesh written by Pat Mills and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? Was it due to a meteorite collision, a big freeze or a killer disease? The truth is far more incredible than any of these things and this thrill-packed graphic novel brings you a science fiction story like no other. Cowboys, massive prehistoric lizards and time travel collide in this classic tale.
