264 Pages
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Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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The growing synergy of humans and technology--from dialysis to genetically altered foods to PET scans--is transforming how we view our minds and our bodies. But how has it changed the body politic? How can we forge a society that protects the rights of human and cyborg alike? The creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook , Chris Hables Gray, now offers the first guide to "posthuman"... Read more
A Note on Texts. Slouching Toward the Posthuman-Does Participatory Evolution Require Participatory Government? Post Modern Politics. 1 The Cyborg Body Politic. 2 Citizenship in the Age of Electronic Production. 3 Cybocracy, Mobocracy, and Democracy. 4 Cyborg Warriors. Promulgating Cyborgs. 5 Infomedicine and the New Body. 6 Cybernetic Human Reproduction. 7 Enabled Cyborgs, Living and Dead. 8 The Hopeful Monsters of Genetic Engineering. Cyborg Society. 9 Prosthetic Territories: Cybercolonizations. 10 Cyborg Families. 11 Sex Machines, Human Beings, In-betweens. 12 Taylored Lives: Microserfs and Superheroes in the Age of Semiintelligent Machines. Cyberology. 13 Sciences of the Third Millenium. 14 Posthuman Possibilities.
Biography
Authored by Gray, Chris Hables
"[An] eruption of tomorrow's topics..." -- Andrei Yuri Lubomudrov, Willamette Week
"...insightful and well formulated." -- Andrei Yuri Lubomudrov, Willamette Week
"An intriguing social survey perfect for discussion groups." -- Reviewer's Bookwatch
"...a supremely readable book, enlivened by weird science and slap-shot one-liners." -- Wired, Mark Dery
"...Cyborg Citizen is a ripping good yarn-just the thing for Dr. Moreau's waiting room." -- Wired, Mark Dery
"In Cyborg Citizen, Gray manages to bridge the understanding gap between technology and politics. He uses a wealth of historical perspective to look intot he future of a cyber-augmented culture, and show us with depth and clarity what the changes will mean to our lives as individuals and as a society. The book is readable by people with all different levels of technological sophistication, and has much new to offer no matter how much you have already thought about the issues." -- Terry Winograd
"Cyborg Citizen is an accessible, comprehensive, and intelligent guide to the complexities of citizenship in the posthuman world. Sprinkled with first-person accounts, Cyborg Citizen is no dry academic treatise but an invaluable and useful guide to the ethical challenges of a future that is already upon us." -- Katherine Hayles, UCLA
Volume 31
"Cyborg Citizen provides an excellent introduction to the new normal and it is a worthy contribution to Chris Hables Gray ongoing project." -- Veronica Hollinger, Science Fiction Studies
