Lost in the Shell: Mind, Body, Identity and the Technology of Information

Name: Lost in the Shell: Mind, Body, Identity and the Technology of Information
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781041038320
Price: 479.05 HKD
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Author: Andrea Monti
ISBN: 9781041038320

By Andrea Monti

Routledge October 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781041038320
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: October 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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What happens to law when the human body becomes replicable, the mind readable, and identity programmable?

This book investigates how artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, and synthetic biology are dismantling the legal foundations of personhood. From biometric doubles and cognitive extraction to bodyoids—human bodies grown without consciousness—the author reveals how legal categories struggle to keep pace with technological realities.

Blending legal theory, philosophy, and science, the book exposes a profound crisis: law no longer knows what a “person” is. This timely and provocative work is essential for scholars in law, bioethics, and technology studies seeking to understand how the post-human era challenges the very structure of the legal order. The future is no longer science fiction. It is a legal vacuum.

The book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of law, public policy, AI, and ethics. It will also be a handy guide for practicing lawyers.

Chapter 1: Who (or what) am I?

Chapter 2: Mindreaders

Chapter 3: (Artificial) Intelligence Without (Real) Mind

Chapter 4: Body Makers

Chapter 5: Selling life in pieces

Chapter 6. Conclusions

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