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Author : Andy Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0195177517
About the effects of modern technology on human intelligence.
Author : David Kreps
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847537218
Developed from a PhD thesis, this book ranges across history, philosophy, sociology and performance to examine the nature of identity in a world where machines are becoming more and more a part of our lives, and of ourselves.
Author : Klaus Benesch
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1558497463
Explores the relationship between authorship and technology in nineteenth-century America.
Author : Nelly Oudshoorn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811525292
This book examines how pacemakers and defibrillators participate in transforming life and death in high-tech societies. In both popular and medical accounts, these internal devices are often portrayed as almost magical technologies. Once implanted in bodies, they do not require any ‘user’ agency. In this unique and timely book, Nelly Oudshoorn argues that any discourse or policy assuming a passive role for people living with these implants silences the fact that keeping cyborg bodies alive involves their active engagement. Pacemakers and defibrillators not only act as potentially life-saving technologies, but simultaneously transform the fragility of bodies by introducing new vulnerabilities. Oudshoorn offers a fascinating examination of what it takes to become a resilient cyborg, and in the process develops a valuable new sociology of creating ‘resilient’ cyborgs.
Author : Judyth Baker
Publisher : TrineDay
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781634240758
Letters to the Cyborgs describes a frightening future about to land on our doorsteps, based on inventions, science and technology we have today. Each story details the political, social, and environmental destruction of our world as Artificial Intelligence takes over the planet. With intelligence, insight and humor, Baker examines what it means to be human in a world where Cyborgs and robots rule. Ranging from chilling visions of Armageddon to haunting stories of the power of human love, with some comic relief thrown in to make the truth easier to handle, this groundbreaking collection of short stories faces the questions scientists, politicians and corporations are ignoring: when Artificial Intelligence becomes "self-aware" and is a thousand times more intelligent than any human being, what happens next? Scientists tell us that this "Singularity" will occur by 2030. "What is human?" will become the most important question in history as humans become 51% or more machine.
Author : Gill Kirkup
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0415220912
Considers how the cyborg has been used in cultural representation from reproductive technology to sci-fi, and questions the power of the cyborg as a symbol which disrupts categories (man / machine and male / female).
Author : Mick Howard
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793626868
In this book, Mick Howard uses a Saussurean framework to explore how bodies and technologies intermingle through a theory of cyborg semiotics. Howard argues that, like words, this combination follows rules of language and can be fruitfully analyzed through the lens of the cyborg. Just as spelling and grammar dictate which words may be formed and in which order they may be sequenced, cyborg semiotics unveils the underlying rules governing how technologies and bodies can be combined to make meaning and how these cyborgs are permitted to interact with each other. This intersectional theory, Howard posits, provides a unique perspective on power and the human condition.
Author : Scott A. Midson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786722959
In particular, Donna Haraway argued in her famous 1991 'Cyborg Manifesto' that people, since they are so often now detached and separated from nature, have themselves evolved into cyborgs. This striking idea has had considerable influence within critical theory, cultural studies and even science fiction (where it has surfaced, for example, in the Terminator films and in the Borg of the Star Trek franchise). But it is a notion that has had much less currency in theology. In his innovative new book, Scott Midson boldly argues that the deeper nuances of Haraway's and the cyborg idea can similarly rejuvenate theology, mythology and anthropology. Challenging the damaging anthropocentrism directed towards nature and the non-human in our society, the author reveals - through an imaginative reading of the myth of Eden - how it is now possible for humanity to be at one with the natural world even as it vigorously pursues novel, 'post-human', technologies.
Author : A. M. Griffin
Publisher : Three Twenty-One, LLC
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Debts. Scavenger hunt. Goals. As a participant in an intergalactic scavenger hunt with a large prize, Suni knew she needed all her focus to be on winning the purse that would set her family free of their lifelong debts. What she didn't expect was the tall, dangerous stranger and his friends who requested an emergency landing on her spaceship. Agreeing changed the course of her heart…and she liked it. Suni knows what’s at stake if she deviates from her plan but how can she resist when Taun is all she thinks about? Rebellion. Treason. Escape After a tumultuous escape and one risky space jump, Taun finds himself the unexpected guest of three quirky sisters and their father in desperate need of help. Recently branded as a traitor from the Cyborg Military Elite, helping Suni will provide the perfect cover while he searches for his missing brethren. Finding love was the last thing he'd imagined happening...but he’d fight any who sought to take it. Taun and his crew strike an uneasy alliance with the trio. The Cyborgs provide protection against a former space pirate who has also joined the scavenger hunt, and in return, the Cyborgs can take refuge on The Renegade and look for other cyborgs who had escaped while also staying off Emperor Shui’s radar. Nothing seems to go as planned. Taun can’t focus on his duty with Suni in his presence and on his mind. Can a feisty female he craves shake him from his mission to return home and free his family?
Author : Robbie Davis-Floyd,Joseph Dumit
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 0415916046
Cyborg Babies tracks the process of reproducing children in symbiosis with pervasive technology and offers a range of perspectives, from resistance to ethnographic analysis to science fiction.
Author : Pelin Kümbet
Publisher : Transnational Press London
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781801350044
Focusing on three representation of posthuman bodies as cloned bodies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), toxic bodies in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007), and cyborg bodies in Justina Robson’s Natural History (2004) from the theoretical perspectives of posthuman definition of what it means to be human, this study discusses the changing concept of the body. In this context, the integral and dynamic connection between a human body and the world is of special significance, which opens up new possibilities to reconfigure the human body that is no longer conceded separate from the nonhuman world but embodied in it. Each of the novels significantly displays the in-betweenness of humans by making them interact with chemical substances, machines, and other nonhuman entities, and shows how clear-cut distinctions between the human and the nonhuman bodies have collapsed.
Author : Margret Grebowicz,Helen Merrick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231149280
This long-overdue volume explores Donna Haraway's influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying particular attention to her more recent work on companion species, rather than her "Manifesto for Cyborgs."
Author : Chris Hables Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781135221911
The growing synergy of humans and technology--from dialysis to genetically altered foods to PET scans--is transforming how we view our minds and our bodies. But how has it changed the body politic? How can we forge a society that protects the rights of human and cyborg alike? 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. For good or ill, politics has already been cyborged in ways that touch us all: On-line voting promises to change who participates. Wars are won on video screens. Biotechnological advances-- cloning, sexual prostheses, gene patents--are redefining life, death, and family in ways that strain the social contract. In the face of these advances, visions of the cyborg future range from the utopian to the nightmarish, from a spiritual super-race transcending the body's confines to a soulless Borg consuming human individuality. Only with a broad, historically rich and ethically grounded understanding of these issues, Gray argues, can we combat the threats to our freedom and even our survival. A work of vision and imagination, Cyborg Citizen lays the groundwork for the participatory evolution of our society.
Author : Samuel Ginsburg
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978836235
The Cyborg Caribbean examines a wide range of twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction texts, arguing that authors from Pedro Cabiya, Alexandra Pagan-Velez, and Vagabond Beaumont to Yasmin Silvia Portales, Erick Mota, and Yoss, Haris Durrani, and Rita Indiana Hernandez, among others, negotiate rhetorical legacies of historical techno-colonialism and techno-authoritarianism. The authors span the Hispanic Caribbean and their respective diasporas, reflecting how science fiction as a genre has the ability to manipulate political borders. As both a literary and historical study, the book traces four different technologies—electroconvulsive therapy, nuclear weapons, space exploration, and digital avatars—that have transformed understandings of corporality and humanity in the Caribbean. By recognizing the ways that increased technology may amplify the marginalization of bodies based on race, gender, sexuality, and other factors, the science fiction texts studied in this book challenge oppressive narratives that link technological and sociopolitical progress. .
Author : Nina Lykke,Rosi Braidotti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015037500504
It is divided into four sections covering science as a whole, the new technologies of the postmodern era, bio-medical discourses, and nature. A distinguished cast of contributors explores the central feminist concerns in each arena, through the central metaphors of monster, mother goddess and cyborg. They look at the consequences of gynogenesis, postmodern eco-buddhism in heathcare, sexual violence in cyberspace, the postmodernization of menopause, the dolphin as androgyne and feminist environmentalism.
