Modified: Living as a Cyborg

Edited by Chris Hables Gray, Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera and Steven Mentor
Routledge
2021

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction
    You are a cyborg. Get over it: The overdetermination of modification
Chris Hables Gray, Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera, Steven Mentor

                                                                                          Part 1: Being a cyborg is my job

1.1     Modifeyed: Why Privellance is more important to our cyborg future than privacy 
Steve Mann  

1.2     The avatars of alpha.tribe 
    Elif Ayiter  

1.3     Tanks, the Shield of Achilles, and Social Cyborgs
    Anonymous 

1.4     Experiments with Cyborg Technology
    Kevin Warwick  

1.5     The Body Vehicle: An Argument for Transhuman Bodies 
    Natasha Vita More  

1.6     When I First Met Jesus He Was a Cyborg
    Gill Haddow  

                                                                                    Part 2: Being a cyborg for my health

2.1     Pers. ex. 
    Allucquére Rosanne “Sandy” Stone  

2.2     Infusions/Infusiones 
    Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera  

2.3     To see with eyes unshielded: Perceiving life as a partible cyborg
    Miranda Loughry

2.4     "Don’t mess with my heart device, I'll do it myself.” In Which Karen and Marie             Interview Each Other 
    Marie Moe and Karen Sandler 

2.5    Becoming an Accidental Cyborg Feminist Socialist 
    Michael Chorost  

2.6     Ghost in the Biome 
    Steve Guile 

2.7    “Cyborg” “Mom” 
    Dion Farquhar  

                                                                                       Part 3: Imagining myself cyborg


3.1    Cyborgian Episteme as Queer Art-science 
    Clarissa Ai Ling Lee 

3.2    Cyborg Kid
    Amber Case 

3.3    Seven Ghosts: Critical Confessions of a Psyborg Mind
    Angeliki Malakasioti  

3.4    A Mundane Cyborg: My Smartphone, My Body, and My City 
    Heesang Lee  

3.5    To Be Transhumanist, Or Not To Be 
    Nikola Danaylov  

3.6    On Cultural Cyborgs 
    Audrey Bennett and Ron Eglash


                                                                            Part 4: Performing my cyborgness

4.1    Waiting for Earthquakes 
    Moon Ribas  

4.2    My Cyborg Performance as a Techno-Cerebral Subject 
    Melike Şahinol

4.3    A song for the universe in the dialect of Terran Cyborg Companions 
    Lissette Olivaries 

4.4    Modulating
    Lucian O’Connor

4.5    Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras: Alternative Anatomical Architectures 
    Stelarc 
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                                                                           Part 5: Thinking myself a cyborg

5.1    I, Cyborgologist
    Chris Hables Gray and Bob Thawley 

5.2    Cyborg empathy for the age of (in)difference
    Sandra P. González Santos

5.3    Being a cyborg in a connected world increasingly mediated by algorithms
    Silvia DalBen and Amanda Chevtchouk Jurno

5.4    Social Challenges: The serious game of digitalization
    Angel Gordo 

5.5    Disc/erning the Crisis: A Mundane Cyborg Throws Hope to the Wind
             Steven Mentor

5.6    The Best Possible Now
    Donna Haraway, with Nada Miljkovic 

    Artist’s Comment
    Julia C R Gray

Illustrations
Index
                                  

From the Introduction:

      Humans alive today, especially those reading this book, are the most modified in history. Modified by culture(s) that morph daily. Modified by incredible prostheses (smart phones, drones, artificial organs and limbs, vaccines) and extraordinary technologies (genetic engineering, nanotechnology). Modified by a rapidly transforming (degrading, actually) environment poisoned by our very success in extending our lives, our numbers, our bodies, our human culture to every corner of the Earth. Every new wave of change we catch exhilarates at first, and then burns as we wipe out on its unexpected consequences. So “Pull on the new flesh” and feel the burn. Or, put another way, it is technological mutilation treated with a new prosthesis creating a new mutilation… over and over until we run out of time, out of world.

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