Modified: Living as a cyborg
Edited by Chris Hables Gray, Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera and Steven Mentor
Routledge/New York & London
For press or journal review copies, please request via this form, using the eBook ISBN, which is 9781351107839.
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This book focuses is on how cyborgization is being lived. Hence, the five sections we have chosen: Being a cyborg is my job; Being a cyborg for my health; Imagining myself cyborg; Performing my cyborgness; and Thinking myself a cyborg. Who goes where is often somewhat arbitrary. Social scientists perform, philosophers do bench science, and artists theorize. But we think this crude mapping makes sense. Cyborgness is often lumpy, unevenly distributed on its organic or machinic substrate, but we come to the realization we are ‘borged each in our own way.
Sadly, it isn't available for sale used very much. It is available from Routledge.
It is a worthy investment if you car about cyborgization, the world's or your own.
Edited by Chris Hables Gray, Heidi Figueroa-Sarriera and Steven Mentor
Routledge/New York & London
For press or journal review copies, please request via this form, using the eBook ISBN, which is 9781351107839.
For course adoption inspection copies, request via this form.
This book focuses is on how cyborgization is being lived. Hence, the five sections we have chosen: Being a cyborg is my job; Being a cyborg for my health; Imagining myself cyborg; Performing my cyborgness; and Thinking myself a cyborg. Who goes where is often somewhat arbitrary. Social scientists perform, philosophers do bench science, and artists theorize. But we think this crude mapping makes sense. Cyborgness is often lumpy, unevenly distributed on its organic or machinic substrate, but we come to the realization we are ‘borged each in our own way.
Sadly, it isn't available for sale used very much. It is available from Routledge.
It is a worthy investment if you car about cyborgization, the world's or your own.
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 Olivarie
4.4 Modulating Lucian O’Connor
4.5 Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras: Alternative Anatomical Architectures Stelarc
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
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 Olivarie
4.4 Modulating Lucian O’Connor
4.5 Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras: Alternative Anatomical Architectures Stelarc
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
