Metapatterning for Disconnection【電子書籍】[ Brandon W. Teigland ]

＜p＞For Th?odore Ostrom, a physicist researching dark matter at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory, becoming posthuman both evokes ＜em＞terror＜/em＞ and excites ＜em＞pleasure＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The terror is easy to understand. The days of ＜em＞the human＜/em＞ may be numbered.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Following the return to his Beijing apartment during a global speciation event, Th?odore Ostrom receives a call from an automated legal service, informing him that his family has died in a motor vehicle accident.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What about the pleasure? The exhilarating prospect of getting out of the old limits of human life, its uncertainty, its impermanence, and opening up new ways of being ＜em＞other-than-human＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the hours leading up to his family's virtual funeral, Th?odore Ostrom speculates over his complicated relationship with (0), who has already ＜em＞transcended＜/em＞ without him. Having no choice but to decide whether to become posthuman or to remain human, he writes ＜em＞Metapatterning for Disconnect．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る