To be a machine : adventures among cyborgs, utopians, hackers, and the futurists solving the modest problem of death.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : U.K. : GRANTA BOOKS, 2017.Description: 241 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 178378198X
- 9781783781980
- 128 OCO
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An exploration of transhumanism: the philosophical and technological movement that is working on an update of the human machine.
Includes a partial list of works consulted.
Mark O'Connell explores the subject of transhumanism. The movement whose aim is to use technology to fundamentally change the human condition, to improve our bodies and minds to the point where we become something other, and better, than the animals we are.
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Mark O'Connell is an Irish author and teacher, born in 1979 and based in Dublin. He earned his PhD in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin. His academic work on, John Banville's Narcissistic Fiction, was published in 2013. From 2011 to 2012 he was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College and taught contemporary literature. His debut book, To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death, was published in 2017 and won for him the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize.(Bowker Author Biography)