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.

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