A Cyborg's Father : Misreading Donna Haraway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brennan, Dave, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fathers and daughters--Poetry.

Fathers and daughters.

Health services administrators--Conduct of life.

Health services administrators.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Earth, Milky Way : Punctum Books, 2025.

Summary:

When his daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as an infant and became dependent on technology to stay alive, Dave Brennan set off in search of a vision: what does it mean to live as a cyborg? And how might he best help his daughter navigate the relationship between machine and flesh? Beginning with a line plucked from Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" -"Their fathers, after all, are inessential"-A Cyborg's Father blends memoirist poetic fragments with lyric essays that look toward music and literature by women artists who have embraced the technological as a metaphorical or literal means of investigating and owning their experience as women. Traversing the intersecting paths of feminism, chronic illness, disability studies, transhumanism, interdependence, and more, this is the tale of a father whose greatest hope is to be rendered inessential.

Contents:

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Exemplum

Misreading

Polemic

A Cyborg's Father

Turing Test: An Ambient Consciousness. After Franny Choi

State of Emergency: Three Videos from Björk's Homogenic

Making Visibility: Naomi Wu

Singing Creation: On Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Holly Herndon Creates a Life

Bibliography

Dancing the Machine: On Robyn's "Femboy".

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781685712310

1685712312