AcknowledgmentsWelcome to Wetwares, N.01Ch. 1Representing Life for a Living19Ch. 2Simflesh, Simbones: At Play in the Artificial Life Ribotype43Ch. 3Disciplined by the Future: The Promising Bodies of Cryonics63Ch. 4"Give Me a Body, Then": Corporeal Time-Images89Ch. 5"Remains to Be Seen": A Self-Extracting Amalgam101Ch. 6Uploading Anticipation, Becoming Silicon121Ch. 7Dot Coma: The Dead Zone of Media and the Replication of Family Values145Ch. 8"Take My Bone Marrow, Please": The Community in Which We Have Organs in Common173Ch. 9Wetwares; or, Cutting Up a Few Aliens181Ch. 10Sympathy for the Alien: Informatic Ecologies and the Proliferation of Abduction193Notes217Index233