Modified: Living as a Cyborg
Living as a Cyborg
1st Edition
Published on 8. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
318 pages
978-0-8153-6401-6 (ISBN)
Description
Building off the highly successful The Cyborg Handbook, this new collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces brings together a set of compelling personal accounts about what it means to live as a cyborg in the twenty-first century.
Human integration with complex technologies goes back to clothes, cooking, and language, but has accelerated incredibly in the last few centuries, with interest spreading among scientists, coders, people with sophisticated implants, theorists, and artists. This collection includes some of the most articulate of these voices from over 25 countries, including Donna Haraway, Stelarc, Natasha Vita-More, Steve Mann, Amber Case, Michael Chorost, Moon Ribas, Kevin Warwick, Sandy Stone, Dion Farquhar, Angeliki Malakasioti, Elif Ayiter, Heesang Lee, Angel Gordo, and others. Addressing topics including race, gender, sexuality, class, conflict, capitalism, climate change, disability and beyond, this collection also explores the differences between robots, androids, cyborgs, hybrids, post-, trans-, and techno-humans, offering readers a critical vocabulary for understanding and discussing the cyborgification of culture and everyday life.
Compelling, interdisciplinary, and international, the book is a perfect primer for students, researchers, and teachers of cyberculture, media and cultural theory, and science fiction studies, as well as anyone interested in the intersections between human and machine.
Human integration with complex technologies goes back to clothes, cooking, and language, but has accelerated incredibly in the last few centuries, with interest spreading among scientists, coders, people with sophisticated implants, theorists, and artists. This collection includes some of the most articulate of these voices from over 25 countries, including Donna Haraway, Stelarc, Natasha Vita-More, Steve Mann, Amber Case, Michael Chorost, Moon Ribas, Kevin Warwick, Sandy Stone, Dion Farquhar, Angeliki Malakasioti, Elif Ayiter, Heesang Lee, Angel Gordo, and others. Addressing topics including race, gender, sexuality, class, conflict, capitalism, climate change, disability and beyond, this collection also explores the differences between robots, androids, cyborgs, hybrids, post-, trans-, and techno-humans, offering readers a critical vocabulary for understanding and discussing the cyborgification of culture and everyday life.
Compelling, interdisciplinary, and international, the book is a perfect primer for students, researchers, and teachers of cyberculture, media and cultural theory, and science fiction studies, as well as anyone interested in the intersections between human and machine.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
77 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 2 s/w Zeichnungen
2 Line drawings, black and white; 77 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8153-6401-6 (9780815364016)
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Chris Hables Gray | Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera | Steven Mentor
Modified: Living as a Cyborg
Living as a Cyborg
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10/2020
1st Edition
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Chris Hables Gray | Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera | Steven Mentor
Modified: Living as a Cyborg
E-Book
10/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
€53.99
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Chris Hables Gray | Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera | Steven Mentor
Modified: Living as a Cyborg
E-Book
10/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
€53.99
Available for download
Persons
Chris Hables Gray is the author of Postmodern War, Cyborg Citizen and Peace, War and Computers. He is a Continuing Lecturer and Fellow at Crown College, University of California at Santa Cruz.
Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera is a community social psychologist and professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. Her research area is focused on digital technology and the transformations of everyday life, subjectivity, and embodiment.
Steven Mentor is a Professor of Critical Thinking, English and American Literature, and writing at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose, California. His current research includes cyborgs and climate justice, climate fiction, and new models of online and hybrid learning.
Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera is a community social psychologist and professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. Her research area is focused on digital technology and the transformations of everyday life, subjectivity, and embodiment.
Steven Mentor is a Professor of Critical Thinking, English and American Literature, and writing at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose, California. His current research includes cyborgs and climate justice, climate fiction, and new models of online and hybrid learning.
Content
Introduction: "You Are a Cyborg; Deal With It!" The Overdetermination of Cyborgization Part 1: Being a Cyborg Is My Job 1 Modifeyed: Why Privellance is More Important to Our Cyborg Future Than Privacy 2 The Avatars of alpha.tribe 3 Tanks, the Shield of Achilles, and Social Cyborgs 4 Experiments With Cyborg Technology 5 The Body Vehicle: An Argument for Transhuman Bodies 6 When I First Met Jesus He Was Cyborg Part 2: Being a Cyborg for My Health 7 Pers. ex. 8 Infusions/Infusiones 9 To see with eyes unshielded: Perceiving life as a partible cyborg 10 "Don't Mess with My Heart Device, I'll Do It Myself." In Which Karen and Marie Interview Each Other 11 Becoming an Accidental Cyborg Feminist Socialist 12 The Ghost in the Biome 13 "Cyborg" "Mom" Part 3: Imagining Myself Cyborg 14 Cyborgian Episteme as Queer Art-science 15 Computer Kid 16 Seven Ghosts: Critical Confessions of a Psyborg Mind 17 A Mundane Cyborg: The Smartphone, the Body, and the City 18 To Be Transhumanist, Or Not To Be 19 On Cultural Cyborgs Part 4: Performing My Cyborgness 20 Waiting for Earthquakes 21 My Cyborg Performance as a Techno-Cerebral Subject 22 A song for the Universe in the Dialect of Terran Cyborg Companions 23 Modulating 24 Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras: Alternative Anatomical Architectures Part 5: Thinking Myself a Cyborg 25 I, Cyborgologist 26 Cyborg Empathy for the Age of (In)Difference 27 Being a Cyborg in a Connected World Increasingly Mediated by Algorithms: From the Perspective of Two Brazilian Journalists 28 Social Challenges: The Serious Game of Digitalization 29 Disc/erning the Crisis: A Mundane Cyborg Throws Hope to the Wind 30 The Best Possible Now Artist's Comment