In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthu...(展开全部)

In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthu...(展开全部)

Is there a significant difference in attitude between immersion in a game and immersion in a movie or novel? What are the new possibilities for representation offered by the emerging technology of virtual reality? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates in Narrative as Virtual Reality, the questions raised by new, interactive technologies have their precursors and echoes in pre-elect...(展开全部)

Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them – from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, Bodies of Water develops an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally p...(展开全部)

Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them – from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, Bodies of Water develops an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally p...(展开全部)

菲利普·鲍尔，1962年生，英国久负盛名的科学作家，曾先后担任《自然》杂志的物理学科编辑和顾问编辑，是《<自然>百年科学经典（英汉对照版）》丛书的两位英方主编之一，擅长从科学与历史、社会和艺术的互动中窥探科学的成就、挫折、趣味和荣光。

Two summers ago, scientists removed a tiny piece of flesh from Philip Ball’s arm and turned it into a rudimentary “mini-brain.” The skin cells, removed from his body, did not die but were instead transformed into nerve cells that independently arranged themselves into a dense network and communicated with each other, exchanging the raw signals of thought. This was life—but whos...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·格林布兰特，著名的文学批评家、理论家，当代西方学术界新历史主义批语流派的泰斗级人物，近二十年来最有影响力的莎学家之一。现任哈佛大学人文学教授、美国艺术与科学学院成员。2000年，被哈佛大学校长任命为John Cogan学院教授，系哈佛大学教授头衔中的最高荣誉，仅有19名哈佛教授获此殊荣，专门从事跨越传统学科界限的前沿性学术研究。作者获得哈佛大学教授头衔中的最高荣誉时，正在从事两个研究项目，本书就是其中一个项目的研究成果。曾在牛津大学、柏林大学、东京大学、北京大学等世界知名大学任客座教授。曾发表几十篇学术论文，出版十余部学术著作，并多次获奖。他在莎学方面的代表作有《文艺复兴时期的自我塑造——从莫尔到莎士比亚》（1980）、《莎士比亚式的协商：文艺复兴时期英国的社会能量的流通》（1988）等等。2004年出版即荣登《纽约时报》十佳图书榜的《俗世威...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·格林布兰特，著名的文学批评家、理论家，当代西方学术界新历史主义批语流派的泰斗级人物，近二十年来最有影响力的莎学家之一。现任哈佛大学人文学教授、美国艺术与科学学院成员。2000年，被哈佛大学校长任命为John Cogan学院教授，系哈佛大学教授头衔中的最高荣誉，仅有19名哈佛教授获此殊荣，专门从事跨越传统学科界限的前沿性学术研究。作者获得哈佛大学教授头衔中的最高荣誉时，正在从事两个研究项目，本书就是其中一个项目的研究成果。曾在牛津大学、柏林大学、东京大学、北京大学等世界知名大学任客座教授。曾发表几十篇学术论文，出版十余部学术著作，并多次获奖。他在莎学方面的代表作有《文艺复兴时期的自我塑造——从莫尔到莎士比亚》（1980）、《莎士比亚式的协商：文艺复兴时期英国的社会能量的流通》（1988）等等。2004年出版即荣登《纽约时报》十佳图书榜的《俗世威...(展开全部)

"So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration."—Dan Cryer, Newsday Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's ), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented...(展开全部)