Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life
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Kember (media and communications, U. of London, UK) identifies "artificial life" (or "alife") as a discipline that emerged at the end of the Cold War, rejecting "militarist top-down command and control and the masculinist instrumental principles" of artificial intelligence, instead founding itself on principles of decentralized distributed control, bottom-up self-organization, and emergence. She describes the feminist engagement with artificial life as it is revealed in the development of identities and entities in the global information environment of human and non-human activities. She engages alife both as a discipline and as a cultural discourse. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
PrefaceAcknowledgements1Autonomy and artificiality in global networks12The meaning of life part 1: the new biology143Artificial Life534CyberLife's Creatures835Network identities1166The meaning of life part 2: genomics1457Evolving feminism in Alife environments1758Beyond the science wars211Notes217Bibliography227Index243
