Index

Table of Contents
   	Series Foreword	
   	Foreword	
   	Acknowledgments	
   	Introduction	
   	The Crater in the Yucatan	p. 4
      	Origin: The Intelligent Condition	p. 5
      	New Readings	p. 8
         	The Technological Reality	p. 8
         	The Cultural Biology	p. 14
         	The Desire of Culture	p. 19
         	The Living Idea	p. 22
         	The Conscience of Cyberspace	p. 28
         	The Environment of Technology	p. 30
         	The Virtual Being	p. 33
         	Sadness of the Machine	p. 34
   	More or Less Alive	p. 40
      	Viruses	p. 41
      	Life/Machine Osmosis	p. 48
         	The Cognitive Ecology	p. 48
         	Metaman	p. 49
         	Identity and Network	p. 50
   	The Rise of Cultural Bodies	p. 54
      	Body's Plasticity: Wells, Kafka, Orwell	p. 55
         	The Plastic Body of Dr. Moreau	p. 36
         	Kafka, The Metamorphosis Machine	p. 60
         	"We are the dead"	p. 66
      	Cyberpunks: Body Terrorists	p. 72
         	New Models of the Body	p. 77
      	Monsters, Cyborgs, and Extraterrestrials	p. 78
   	Conclusion: Cruel Miracles	p. 92
   	Notes	p. 96
   	Glossary	p. 108
   	Bibliography	p. 111
   	Index	p. 113