ISBN:
9780415919784
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (264 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Cyborg Citizen : Politics in the Posthuman Age
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The creator of the cult classic 〈EM〉Cyborg Handbook〈/EM〉, Chris Hables Gray, now offers the first guide to ""posthuman"" politics, framing the key issues that could threaten or brighten our technological future
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Texts; Slouching Toward the Posthuman-Does Participatory Evolution Require Participatory Government?; The Crippling of Superman; The Proliferation of Cyborgs; postmodern politics; 1 The Cyborg Body Politic; The Possibilities of Posthumanism; Postmodern: The Times We Live In; The Importance of the Cyborg Idea; 2 Citizenship in the Age of Electronic Reproduction; Who or What Is a Citizen?; The Cyborg Bill of Rights; Cyborgian Justice: Panopticons versus Cyborg Death Cults
Description / Table of Contents:
3 Cybocracy, Mobocracy, and DemocracyThe Manufacturing of Consent; Technofixes: From Televised Community to Electronic Voting; Bioregions, Infospheres, Nets, Webs, TAZ, and Community; 4 Cyborg Warriors; Postmodern War and Peace; Human-Machine Weapon Systems; Future Conflicts: Nuclear, Chemical, Biological, Informational, Nano; promulgating cyborgs; 5 Infomedicine and the New Body; The Digital Body; The Medically Modified; The Artificial Heart; Natural Transplants; 6 Cybernetic Human Reproduction; Cyborg Conceptions; Postmodern Pregnancy; Programming Cyberchildren
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Enabled Cyborgs, Living and Dead(Dis)Abled Cyborgs; Penile Prosthetics; Neomorts, Living Cadavers, and Immortals; 8 The Hopeful Monsters of Genetic Engineering; The Rhetoric of Life: DNA and Dr. Frankenstein's Dreams; Cloning: A Multiplication of Mes; Brave New World ... Order?; cyborg society; 9 Prosthetic Territories, Cybercolonializations; Cyberspace: Disembodied or Deconstructed?; Tiny Sex; Outer Space and Aquaspace; 10 Cyborg Families; The Technologically Mediated Family; Surrogate Families; Cyborg Family Values; 11 Sex Machines, Human Beings, In-Betweens; Dildonics; Transsexuality
Description / Table of Contents:
Future Sex12 Taylored Lives: Microserfs and Superheroes in the Age of Semiintelligent Machines; Lone Eagles or Sitting Ducks?; Revolt of the Microserfs against the Sociotechs; Human-Machine Learning Systems; 'Borging the Professional Athlete; cyborgology; 13 Sciences of the Third Millennium; The Gaze of Science; The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics; Small Is Powerful: The Nano Revolution; The Sciences of the Artificial and the Reflexive Turn; 14 Posthuman Possibilities; Cyborg Epistemologies, Ethics, and Epiphanies; Subjectivities of Posthumanity; Carnival Cyborg
Description / Table of Contents:
The Future Is Not Yet WrittenNotes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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