Download or read book The Gendered Cyborg written by Gill Kirkup and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers how the cyborg has been used in cultural representation from reproductive technology to sci-fi, and questions the power of the cyborg as a symbol which disrupts categories (man / machine and male / female).
Download or read book Cyborgism Cyborgs Performance and Society written by David Kreps and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed from a PhD thesis, this book ranges across history, philosophy, sociology and performance to examine the nature of identity in a world where machines are becoming more and more a part of our lives, and of ourselves.
Download or read book Cyborg Theology written by Scott A. Midson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In particular, Donna Haraway argued in her famous 1991 'Cyborg Manifesto' that people, since they are so often now detached and separated from nature, have themselves evolved into cyborgs. This striking idea has had considerable influence within critical theory, cultural studies and even science fiction (where it has surfaced, for example, in the Terminator films and in the Borg of the Star Trek franchise). But it is a notion that has had much less currency in theology. In his innovative new book, Scott Midson boldly argues that the deeper nuances of Haraway's and the cyborg idea can similarly rejuvenate theology, mythology and anthropology. Challenging the damaging anthropocentrism directed towards nature and the non-human in our society, the author reveals - through an imaginative reading of the myth of Eden - how it is now possible for humanity to be at one with the natural world even as it vigorously pursues novel, 'post-human', technologies.
Download or read book Resilient Cyborgs written by Nelly Oudshoorn and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how pacemakers and defibrillators participate in transforming life and death in high-tech societies. In both popular and medical accounts, these internal devices are often portrayed as almost magical technologies. Once implanted in bodies, they do not require any ‘user’ agency. In this unique and timely book, Nelly Oudshoorn argues that any discourse or policy assuming a passive role for people living with these implants silences the fact that keeping cyborg bodies alive involves their active engagement. Pacemakers and defibrillators not only act as potentially life-saving technologies, but simultaneously transform the fragility of bodies by introducing new vulnerabilities. Oudshoorn offers a fascinating examination of what it takes to become a resilient cyborg, and in the process develops a valuable new sociology of creating ‘resilient’ cyborgs.
Download or read book Cyborg written by Laura Forlano and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied. This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation, robots, and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory. Drawing on their combined decades of training, teaching, and research in the social sciences, design, and engineering education, Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau introduce an approach called critical cyborg literacy. Critical cyborg literacy foregrounds power dynamics and pays attention to the ways that social and cultural factors such as gender, race, and disability shape how technology is imagined, developed, used, and resisted. Forlano and Glabau offer critical cyborg literacy as a way of thinking through questions about the relationship between humanity and technology in areas such as engineering and computing, art and design, and health care and medicine, as well as the social sciences and humanities. Cyborg examines whether modern technologies make us all cyborgs—if we consider, for instance, the fact that we use daily technologies at work, have technologies embedded into our bodies in health care applications, or use technology to critically explore possibilities as artists, designers, activists, and creators. Lastly, Cyborg offers perspectives from critical race, feminist, and disability thinkers to help chart a path forward for cyborg theory in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book A Course in Cyborg Semiotics written by Mick Howard and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Mick Howard uses a Saussurean framework to explore how bodies and technologies intermingle through a theory of cyborg semiotics. Howard argues that, like words, this combination follows rules of language and can be fruitfully analyzed through the lens of the cyborg. Just as spelling and grammar dictate which words may be formed and in which order they may be sequenced, cyborg semiotics unveils the underlying rules governing how technologies and bodies can be combined to make meaning and how these cyborgs are permitted to interact with each other. This intersectional theory, Howard posits, provides a unique perspective on power and the human condition.
Download or read book Modified Living as a Cyborg written by Chris Hables Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building off the highly successful The Cyborg Handbook, this new collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces brings together a set of compelling personal accounts about what it means to live as a cyborg in the twenty-first century. Human integration with complex technologies goes back to clothes, cooking, and language, but has accelerated incredibly in the last few centuries, with interest spreading among scientists, coders, people with sophisticated implants, theorists, and artists. This collection includes some of the most articulate of these voices from over 25 countries, including Donna Haraway, Stelarc, Natasha Vita-More, Steve Mann, Amber Case, Michael Chorost, Moon Ribas, Kevin Warwick, Sandy Stone, Dion Farquhar, Angeliki Malakasioti, Elif Ayiter, Heesang Lee, Angel Gordo, and others. Addressing topics including race, gender, sexuality, class, conflict, capitalism, climate change, disability and beyond, this collection also explores the differences between robots, androids, cyborgs, hybrids, post-, trans-, and techno-humans, offering readers a critical vocabulary for understanding and discussing the cyborgification of culture and everyday life. Compelling, interdisciplinary, and international, the book is a perfect primer for students, researchers, and teachers of cyberculture, media and cultural theory, and science fiction studies, as well as anyone interested in the intersections between human and machine.
Download or read book Cyborg Babies written by Robbie Davis-Floyd and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyborg Babies tracks the process of reproducing children in symbiosis with pervasive technology and offers a range of perspectives, from resistance to ethnographic analysis to science fiction.
Download or read book Her Mountain Cyborg written by Nova Edwins and published by Black Umbrella Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-07 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I need credits and I need them fast. That's why I'm responding to an obscure ad that offers a generous reward for what should be simple work. For the amount of credits offered, I would be willing to do just about anything. So, when a rich and powerful cyborg asks me to travel to an ice planet and convince his son to come back home, I immediately agree. It can't be that hard, can it? "Her Mountain Cyborg" contains a lot of snow, a few dangerous predators, and a possessive cyborg who will never let his curvy beloved out of his sight again. Our heroine thinks she still has a say in the matter. (Spoiler: She doesn't.)
Download or read book Critical Posthumanism Cloned Toxic and Cyborg Bodies in Fiction written by Pelin Kümbet and published by Transnational Press London. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on three representation of posthuman bodies as cloned bodies in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), toxic bodies in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007), and cyborg bodies in Justina Robson’s Natural History (2004) from the theoretical perspectives of posthuman definition of what it means to be human, this study discusses the changing concept of the body. In this context, the integral and dynamic connection between a human body and the world is of special significance, which opens up new possibilities to reconfigure the human body that is no longer conceded separate from the nonhuman world but embodied in it. Each of the novels significantly displays the in-betweenness of humans by making them interact with chemical substances, machines, and other nonhuman entities, and shows how clear-cut distinctions between the human and the nonhuman bodies have collapsed.
Download or read book The Dada Cyborg written by Matthew Biro and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era when technology, biology & culture are becoming ever more closely connected, 'The Dada Cyborg' explains how the cyborg as we know it today developed between 1918 & 1933 as German artists gave visual form to their utopian hopes & fantasies in a fearful response to World War I.
Download or read book Romantic Cyborgs written by Klaus Benesch and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary critics have long regarded the rejection of technology as a distinguishing feature of American Romanticism. Yet as Klaus Benesch shows in this insightful study, the attitude of antebellum writers toward the advent of the machine age was far more complicated than often supposed. Although fraught with tension, the relationship between professional authorship and evolving technology reflected a pattern of adjustment rather than opposition, as writers sought to redefine their place within a culture that increasingly valued the engineer and the scientist.
Download or read book Finding Her Cyborg written by M.K. Eidem and published by Turtle Point Publishing, Inc. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talyani Zulfiqar has been an interplanetary superstar since she won the Worlds competition at the age of thirteen. Her mother is a socialite of renowned beauty, and her father is a powerful Supreme Judge. From the outside, her life is perfect, but Taly had a secret and someone for whom she'd sacrifice everything. Ranvir Somerled had been proud to serve and protect the people of Kirs as a member of the Cyborg Military Elite. Orphaned at a young age, it was the only family he had left. Then Emperor Shui, in his quest for power, destroyed that family, and he became a rebel. With their world in chaos, can two drastically different people find a way to survive and maybe even love? Or will their secrets and misunderstandings tear them apart?
Download or read book Cyborg Citizen written by Chris Hables Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook, Chris Hables Gray, now offers the first guide to ""posthuman"" politics, framing the key issues that could threaten or brighten our technological future.
Download or read book Cyborg Theatre written by J. Parker-Starbuck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book articulates the first theoretical context for a 'cyborg theatre', metaphorically integrating on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized, or mediatized, to re-imagine subjectivity for a post-human age. It covers a variety of examples, to propose new theoretical tools for understanding performance in our changing world.
Download or read book The Legend of the Copper Cyborg written by L. Hawk and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legend of the Copper Cyborg: Loading… By: L. Hawk and J. Hawk Edited by: D. Hawk It’s the year 2092. Kelsi, 12, and her teammates Red Nose and Black Nose, two wolf dogs, find themselves as players in a strange new world. Here, they must compete to stay in good standing, not only for their reputation but also for their survival. Realizing that it would be much harder to get back home, they made it a point to take the game more seriously in order to survive and get to the top. However, when Kelsi is overcome with the need to win, she begins to throw herself and her friends into more and more dangerous predicaments. After Kelsi learns more about the legend of the copper cyborg, she comes up with a plan. But will the cyborg be what Kelsi and the village need to make it to the top or is the game world doomed from the start? The Legend of the Copper Cyborg blends the classic with the modern. It combines the enchantment of Oz, the suspense of Frankenstein, the mechanics of Minecraft, and the exploration of the Jungle Book into one twisting, fascinating saga that is sure to entertain even the most reluctant of readers.
Download or read book The Conscious Cyborg Spirituality in the Age of AI written by Holly Arin and published by Holly Arin. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Conscious Cyborg: Spirituality in the Age of AI" is the essential guide for navigating the uncharted territories of spirituality in the age of artificial intelligence. Explore profound questions that challenge our conventional notions of spirituality: · How will AI influence our perception of consciousness and its implications for spirituality? · Can AI serve as a catalyst for personal transformation and spiritual awakening? · What are the ethical considerations of merging AI with spiritual practices? · How can we navigate the uncharted territories of spirituality in a world increasingly shaped by technology? Embrace the transformative potential of AI while preserving the profound human connection at the core of spirituality. "The Conscious Cyborg" invites you to embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery, where the boundaries between the physical and digital realms blur, and the possibilities for spiritual growth and enlightenment expand beyond our wildest imaginations. Join us as we explore the profound implications of AI on our spiritual understanding and experiences.
