Introduction: Posthuman Metamorphosis -- One Narrative and Systems -- Two Nonmodern Metamorphosis -- Three System and Form -- Four Metamorphosis and Embedding -- Five Communicating The Fly -- Six Posthuman Viability -- Conclusion: the Neocybernetic Posthuman
Summary
From Dr. Moreau's Beast People to David Cronenberg's Brundlefly, Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the Cyberiad to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the Xenogenesis trilogy, this examines modern and postmodern stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory. New media generate new metamorphs
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index
