Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction

Donna Haraway's celebrated observation that "our machines are disturbingly lively, while we ourselves are frighteningly inert" has given this issue a certain currency in contemporary cyber-theory. But…

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