Sarah Kember is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of Virtual Anxiety. Photography, New Technologies and Subjectivity, 1998.

Chapter 1 Autonomy and Artificiality in Global Networks; Chapter 2 The Meaning of Life Part 1; Chapter 3 Artificial Life; Chapter 4 CyberLife's Creatures; Chapter 5 Network Identities; Chapter 6 The Meaning of Life Part 2; Chapter 7 Evolving Feminism in Alife Environments; Chapter 8 Beyond the Science Wars;

Examining the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics rather than on the 'nature' of artificial life.