Modified : living as a cyborg / edited by Chris Hables Gray, Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera, and Steven Mentor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gray, Chris Hables, editor.

Figueroa-Sarriera, Heidi, editor.

Mentor, Steven, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cybernetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 318 pages) : illustrations (some color)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

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, andembodiment. 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.

Contents:

Part 1 Being a Cyborg Is My Job p. 23

1 Modifeyed: Why Priveillance Is More Important to Our Cyborg Future Than Privacy p. 25 / Steve Mann

2 The Avatars of alpha.tribe p. 34 / Elif Ayiter

3 Tanks, the Shield of Achilles, and Social Cyborgs: Anonymous p. 46

4 Experiments With Cyborg Technology p. 50 / Kevin Warwick

5 The Body Vehicle: An Argument for Transhuman Bodies p. 58 / Natasha Vita-More

6 When I First Saw Jesus, He Was Cyborg p. 68 / Gill Haddow

Part 2 Being a Cyborg for My Health p. 75

7 Pers. ex. p. 77 / Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone

8 Infusiones/Infusions: Estampas Itinerantes en Mi Tratamento de Cáncer/Itinerant Portraits in My Cancer Treatment p. 80 / Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera

9 To See With Eyes Unshielded: Perceiving Life as a Partible Cyborg p. 92 / Miranda Loughry

10 "Don't Mess With My Heart Device, I'll Do It Myself." In Which Karen and Marie Interview Each Other p. 101 / Marie Moe and Karen Sandler

11 Becoming an Accidental Cyborg Feminist Socialist p. 108 / Michael Chorost

12 The Ghost in the Biome p. 114 / Steven Gulie

13 "Cyborg" "Mom" p. 123 / Dion Farquhar

Part 3 Imagining Myself Cyborg p. 137

14 Cyborgian Episteme as Queer Art-science p. 139 / Clarissa Ai Ling Lee

15 Computer Kid p. 149 / Amber Case

16 Seven Ghosts: Critical Confessions of a Psyborg Mind p. 156 / Angeliki Malakasioti

17 A Mundane Cyborg: The Smartphone, the Body, and the City p. 165 / Heesang Lee

18 To Be Transhumanist, Or Not To Be p. 178 / Nikola Danaylov

19 On Cultural Cyborgs p. 183 / Audrey Bennett and Ron Eglash

Part 4 Performing My Cyborgness p. 191

20 Waiting for Earthquakes p. 193 / Moon Ribas

21 My Cyborg Performance as a Techno-Cerebral Subject p. 197 / Melike Sahinol

22 A Song for the Universe in the Dialect of Terran Cyborg Companions p. 212 / Lissette Olivaries

23 Modulating p. 217 / Lucian O'Connor

24 Zombies, Cyborgs and Chimeras: Alternate Anatomical Architectures p. 225 / Stelarc

Part 5 Thinking Myself a Cyborg p. 241

25 I, Cyborgologist p. 243 / Chris Hables Gray and Bob Thawley

26 Cyborg Empathy for the Age of (In)Difference p. 247 / Sandra P. González-Santos

27 Being a Cyborg in a Connected World Increasingly Mediated by Algorithms: From the Perspective of Two Brazilian Journalists p. 254 / Silvia DalBen and Amanda Chevtchouk Jurno

28 Social Challenges: The Serious Game of Digitalization p. 263 / Ángel Gordo

29 Disc/erning the Crisis: A Mundane Cyborg Throws Hope to the Wind p. 271 / Steven Mentor

30 The Best Possible Now p. 282 / Donna Haraway and Nada Miljkovic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version: Modified

ISBN:

9781351107839

1351107836

9781351107822

1351107828

9781351107815

135110781X

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40030218644

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