We Have Always Been Cyborgs

Author : Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529219234

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We Have Always Been Cyborgs by Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz Pdf

The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain–computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension. Despite its enduring influence in the public imagination, a fully developed philosophy of transhumanism has not yet been presented. In this new book, leading philosopher Stefan Lorenz Sorgner explores the critical issues that link transhumanism with digitalization, gene technologies and ethics. He examines the history and meaning of transhumanism and asks bold questions about human perfection, cyborgs, genetically enhanced entities, and uploaded minds. Offering insightful reflections on values, norms and utopia, this will be an important guide for readers interested in contemporary digital culture, gene ethics, and policy making.

Author : Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 9781529219210

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We Have Always Been Cyborgs by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner Pdf

This visionary new book explores the critical issues that link transhumanism with digitalisation, gene technologies and ethics.

Author : Lieven de Cauter
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015060898486

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The Capsular Civilization by Lieven de Cauter Pdf

Front cover images: Bob Hawke, ACTU Congress, 15 September 1979 (Fairfax, © Michael Rayner); Gough Whitlam on the steps of Parliament House, 11 November 1975 (Australian Labor Party); Paul Keating, National Press Club, March 1996 Election Campaign (Newspix); John Curtin, wartime rally, 1942 (Fairfax).Graham Freudenberg, Australia's greatest speechwriter, says "the Australian Labor Party was built on speeches." This book brings together great Labor speeches which give voice to the party's enduring values and achievements, and place it and its principal figures at the centre of historic events.There are speeches that stir the imagination and inspire, speeches that appeal to humanity, speeches of sorrow and redemption, speeches that urge moderation and caution, speeches that call for courage in the face of adversity, speeches that seek to mute the trumpet sound of war, speeches that attack the forces of conservatism, and speeches which celebrate and mourn the party's fallen.Chris Watson articulates Labor's purpose as "a light upon a mountain" - four decades beforeBen Chifley's famed "light on the hill" speech John Curtin tells a hushed parliament that "a great naval battle is proceeding"Gough Whitlam declares "It's time" for a new Labor governmentBob Hawke's urges South Africa's apartheid leaders to listen to "the spirit of men and women yearning to be free"Paul Keating's belief in Labor as "the people who can dream the big dreams and do the big things"Kevin Rudd says "We are Sorry" to the stolen generations of Aboriginal AustraliansClip from the author, reproduced with permission from The Australian:http://video.theaustralian.com.au/2305217661/Labors-greatest-speeches

Author : Chris Hables Gray,Steven Mentor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:49015002260728

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The Cyborg Handbook by Chris Hables Gray,Steven Mentor Pdf

On cybernetic organisms (cyborgs)

Author : Elżbieta H. Oleksy,Elżbieta Ostrowska
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSC:32106019396008

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Gender in Film and the Media by Elżbieta H. Oleksy,Elżbieta Ostrowska Pdf

Authored by an international team of academics, Gender in Film and the Media responds to continuing debates about representation and gender in cinema and other media, with a particular concentration on the ways in which they may relate to the Central European context since 1989. The emphasis of these essays, on the intersections between social and cultural formations and practices of gender, represents an attempt to move beyond the abstractions of the founding texts in this field, and to ground theoretical reflection in close textual and contextual analysis. This book thus also represents the expansion of cultural exchange between East and West since 1989, which has created new and challenging opportunities to rethink the imaging of gender in national and international frameworks.

Author : Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Body, Human
ISBN : UOM:39015057634217

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Bodies and Culture in the Cyberage by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro Pdf

"I do not pretend this to be a review in the classic sense of the term. Rather, the following are the many different thoughts in[s]pired by the reading of Cyberspace, cyberbodies, cyberpunk : cultures of technological embodiments, edited by Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows"--P. 2.

Author : Eve Langlais
Publisher : Eve Langlais
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781927459676

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Adam by Eve Langlais Pdf

On Earth, when a rebel cyborg leader is drawn into a search for answers, he doesn’t expect things to blow up. And he’s not just talking about his house. Somehow his heart explodes, too, with the last thing he ever expected—love. Adam survived the great cyborg purge because the military made a mistake, a mistake they lived to regret. They crossed the line when they decided to take away his free will and turn him into a machine. They erroneously thought him a slave they could command. However, their biggest screw up of all was when they didn’t terminate him at the first sign cyborgs were regaining sentience. As the rebel cyborg leader on Earth, Adam is doing everything he can to rescue others of his kind. Part of his current, undercover mission involves infiltrating a top secret military facility where he comes in contact with a human scientist. A sexy scientist whom he’s ordered to protect. What should have been an easy job turns into a fight for his life because it’s not just bullets and hit squads he’s got to worry about, but his heart. How can one fragile female mean so much? It’s almost too much for a rational-minded cyborg to understand. When the choice is given, escape or let her die, he lets his heart decide, and that's when things begin to explode—literally. Cyborgs More than Machines series: C791, F814, B785, Aramus, Seth, Adam, Avion Genre: A Cyborg romance with dark humor, an alpha male, some humans you'll hate and cool twists that will leave you craving for a machine lover of your own. (genetic engineering, sci-fi romance, space opera, fantasy romance, futuristic romance, dark romance, paranormal romance, sfr, android, military conspiracy)

Author : Rod Giblett
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131632569

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The Body of Nature and Culture by Rod Giblett Pdf

This book explores the relationship of human bodies with natural and cultural environments, arguing that these categories are linked and intertwined. It argues for an environmentally sustainable and healthy relationship between the body and the earth.

Author : Joanna Zylinska
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847144393

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The Cyborg Experiments by Joanna Zylinska Pdf

The Cyborg Experiments analyzes the challenges posed to corporeality by techology. Taking as their starting point the work of the highly influential performance artists Orlan and Stelarc, the essays in this timely and important collection raise a number of questions in relation to new conceptions of embodiment, identity and otherness in the age of new technologies: Has the body become obsolete? Does transgender challenge traditional ideas of agency? Have we always been cyborgs?In addition to highlighting the playful character of digital aesthetics, the contributors investigate ethical issues concerning the ownership of our bodies and the experiments we perform on them. In this way the book explores how humanism, and ideas of "the human", have been placed under increasing scrutiny as a result of new developments in science, media and communications.Contributors:John Appleby, Rachel Armstrong, Fred Botting, Julie Clarke, Gary Hall, Chris Hables Gray, Meredith Jones, Orlan, Mark Poster, Jay Prosser, E. A. Scheer, Zod Sofia, Stelarc, Scott Wilson, Joanna Zylinska

Author : Brian Rotman
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131607363

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Becoming Beside Ourselves by Brian Rotman Pdf

DIVTheoretical study of the relationship between technoscience and the human body that examines the ways in which bodies and machines "speak" not just through language but also through gesture, numbers, and other non-alphabetic systems of expressio/div

Author : Judyth Baker
Publisher : TrineDay
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781634240758

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Letters to the Cyborgs by Judyth Baker Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Health
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133486345

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Seed by Anonim Pdf

Author : S. Pepper
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452581040

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Jeremy Q Taylor & the Cyborg in the Cellar by S. Pepper Pdf

What sets humans apart from cyborgs? Sixteen-year-old Jeremy Q. Taylor is about to find out. After losing his mother the year before, Jeremy feels more alone than ever. Then his dad surprises Jeremy with a new brother. Addison is a cyborg, who looks to be about eighteen. But hes not just any cyborg. Hes almost perfect in every way. When the plans to mass-produce the cyborg are sold to a robotics company, things get complicated. Can they reverse engineer the cyborg? What if something goes wrong? The possibility of this occurring creates fear and anger in those who have grown to love Addison. Going into hiding may be his only chance to survive.

Author : Anne-Marie E. Cantwell,Eva Friedlander,Madeleine Lorch Tramm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025267720

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Ethics and Anthropology by Anne-Marie E. Cantwell,Eva Friedlander,Madeleine Lorch Tramm Pdf

Since the 1970s, anthropologists have moved into diverse workplaces, including private and public settings, that raise new issues for anthropology as a discipline as well as for the discourse on science more generally. In the context of increasing globalization, the articulation of new ethical dilemmas around such issues as technology, indigenous knowledge and rights, government regulation and bioethics among others, can and do inform and shape scientific public policy. The authors in this volume work in traditional research centres and universities, as well as in private and public sectors, and across specialties from medical anthropology and social medicine to archaeology and cyberspace. They explore the dimensions of an ethical anthropology in today's world, and the unique contribution of anthropology to the sciences.

Author : Alexander Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1602350221

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The Two Virtuals by Alexander Reid Pdf

Reid shows that to understand the relationship between the traditional, humanistic realm of thought, subjectivity, and writing and the emerging virtual space of networked media, one needs to recognize the common material space they share.