Modified: Living as a Cyborg (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gray, Chris Hables; Mentor, Steven; Figueroa-Sarriera, Heidi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351107815
• Artikelnr.: 60025979

Autorenporträt

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, Río 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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