Citizen Cyborg

Citizen Cyborg
Title Citizen Cyborg PDF eBook
Author James Hughes
Publisher
Pages 315
Release 2004-10-27
Genre Science
ISBN 0786722916

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A provocative work by medical ethicist James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg argues that technologies pushing the boundaries of humanness can radically improve our quality of life if they are controlled democratically. Hughes challenges both the technophobia of Leon Kass and Francis Fukuyama and the unchecked enthusiasm of others for limitless human enhancement. He argues instead for a third way, "democratic transhumanism," by asking the question destined to become a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century: How can we use new cybernetic and biomedical technologies to make life better for everyone? These technologies hold great promise, but they also pose profound challenges to our health, our culture, and our liberal democratic political system. By allowing humans to become more than human - "posthuman" or "transhuman" - the new technologies will require new answers for the enduring issues of liberty and the common good. What limits should we place on the freedom of people to control their own bodies? Who should own genes and other living things? Which technologies should be mandatory, which voluntary, and which forbidden? For answers to these challenges, Citizen Cyborg proposes a radical return to a faith in the resilience of our democratic institutions.

Cyborg Citizen

Cyborg Citizen
Title Cyborg Citizen PDF eBook
Author Chris Hables Gray
Publisher Routledge
Pages 264
Release 2000-12-20
Genre Computers
ISBN 1135221928

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The creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook, Chris Hables Gray, now offers the first guide to ""posthuman"" politics, framing the key issues that could threaten or brighten our technological future.

Cyborg Selves

Cyborg Selves
Title Cyborg Selves PDF eBook
Author Jeanine Thweatt-Bates
Publisher Routledge
Pages 368
Release 2016-05-13
Genre Religion
ISBN 1317155165

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What is the 'posthuman'? Is becoming posthuman inevitable-something which will happen to us, or something we will do to ourselves? Why do some long for it, while others fearfully reject it? These questions underscore the fact that the posthuman is a name for the unknown future, and therefore, not a single idea but a jumble of competing visions - some of which may be exciting, some of which may be frightening, and which is which depends on who you are, and what you desire to be. This book aims to clarify current theological and philosophical dialogue on the posthuman by arguing that theologians must pay attention to which form of the posthuman they are engaging, and to demonstrate that a 'posthuman theology' is not only possible, but desirable, when the vision of the posthuman is one which coincides with a theological vision of the human.

Cybertypes

Cybertypes
Title Cybertypes PDF eBook
Author Lisa Nakamura
Publisher Routledge
Pages 190
Release 2013-09-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1135222061

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First published in 2002. In Cybertypes, Lisa Nakamura turn sour assumption that the Net is color-blind on its head. Examining all facets of everyday web-life, she shows that racial and ethnic stereotypes, or 'cybertypes' are hardwired into our online interactions: Identity tourists masquerade in chat rooms as Asian_Geisha or Alatiniolover. Web directories sharply delimit racial categories. Anonymous computer users are assumed to be white. Lively, provocative, Cybertypes takes up computer relationship between race, ethnicity and technology and offers a candid and nuanced understanding of identity in the information age.

Birth of a Dancing Star

Birth of a Dancing Star
Title Birth of a Dancing Star PDF eBook
Author Delio, Ilia
Publisher Orbis Books
Pages 311
Release 2019-11-21
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1608338118

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Modified: Living as a Cyborg

Modified: Living as a Cyborg
Title Modified: Living as a Cyborg PDF eBook
Author Chris Hables Gray
Publisher Routledge
Pages 439
Release 2020-10-07
Genre Computers
ISBN 135110781X

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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.

Cinder

Cinder
Title Cinder PDF eBook
Author Marissa Meyer
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 449
Release 2013-01-08
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1250007208

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Queen Levana is a ruler who uses her 'glamour' to gain power. but long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story - a story that has never been told ... until now.