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Of Neural Nets and Brains in Vats: Model Subjects in Galatea 2.2 and Plus
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 30, Number 1, Winter 2007
- pp. 84-105
- 10.1353/bio.2007.0019
- Article
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Building on feminist critiques of autobiography, we argue that bringing together sf and life-writing theory can further critique the ideological connection between narrative mode and bourgeois, monadic subjectivity characteristic of much autobiography, as revealed by our reading of non-humans coming to consciousness in Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 and Joseph McElroy's Plus.