Zone 6: Incorporations

Jonathan Crary

ISBN 10: 0942299299 / ISBN 13: 9780942299298

Published by Zone Books, 1992

About this Item

This volume of ZONE explores the ongoing convergence of what were once the distinct worlds of the machine and the organism. Incorporations, through essays, image-text projects, photographic dossiers, and philosophical and scientific articles, examines the increasing breakdown of the boundaries between biology and technology and the social, cultural, and political effects of this merging. Incorporations is about the diverse ways in which human beings are integrated into larger systems and processes of social and technological organization, and the many ways in which the very meaning of the word life has been reconfigured. In its heterogeneous approach, ZONE 6 provides a rich cartographic description of the particular capacities and trajectories of contemporary biotechnic arrangements -- drawing on the work of neurologists, anthropologists, filmmakers, architects, philosophers, historians, biologists, dancers, novelists, and artists. Contributors include Paul Rabinow, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Francisco Varela, J.G. Ballard, Klaus Theweleit, Diller and Scofidio, John O'Neill, F lix Guattari, Ana Barrado, Donna Haraway, Leif Finkel, Paul Virilio, and Peter Eisenman.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Zone 6: Incorporations
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0942299299
• ISBN 13: 9780942299298
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This volume of ZONE explores the ongoing convergence of what were once the distinct worlds of the machine and the organism. Incorporations, through essays, image-text projects, photographic dossiers, and philosophical and scientific articles, examines the increasing breakdown of the boundaries between biology and technology and the social, cultural, and political effects of this merging. Incorporations is about the diverse ways in which human beings are integrated into larger systems and processes of social and technological organization, and the many ways in which the very meaning of the word “life” has been reconfigured. In its heterogeneous approach, ZONE 6 provides a rich cartographic description of the particular capacities and trajectories of contemporary biotechnic arrangements ― drawing on the work of neurologists, anthropologists, filmmakers, architects, philosophers, historians, biologists, dancers, novelists, and artists.

Contributors include Paul Rabinow, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Francisco Varela, J.G. Ballard, Klaus Theweleit, Diller and Scofidio, John O’Neill, Félix Guattari, Ana Barrado, Donna Haraway, Leif Finkel, Paul Virilio, and Peter Eisenman.

About the Author

Jonathan Crary is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University. A founding editor of Zone Books, he is the author of Techniques of the Observer (MIT Press, 1990) and coeditor of Incorporations (Zone Books, 1992). He has been the recipient of Guggenheim, Getty, Mellon, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.