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Book Cyborg Vol  1  Imitation of Life

Download or read book Cyborg Vol 1 Imitation of Life written by John Semper Jr. and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyborg is a member of the Justice League. He is one of EarthÕs greatest heroes. But is Cyborg really who he thinks he is? Find out in CYBORG VOL. 1: THE IMITATION OF LIFE, a part of DC Rebirth! When a shocking discovery about his own origin makes Victor Stone question everything he thought he knew about his identity and his humanity, it seems Cyborg might be more machine than man after all. But if thatÕs the case, which side will Cyborg take when a mysterious cybernetic entity decides to start a war between man and machines? Now, the people Victor Stone cares about the most are caught up in the crossfire, and the choices he makes may mean the difference between the survival of mankind and an artificially intelligent future. Can Cyborg display the heart of a hero...or will he be torn in two by his dual nature? Cyborg is reborn for DC REBIRTH in this great new starting point graphic novel, thanks to animation writer John Semper, Jr. (Spider-Man: The Animated Series) and artists including Paul Pelletier (AQUAMAN), Will Conrad (NIGHTWING), Timothy Green II (RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS) and more! Collects CYBORG #1-5 and CYBORG: REBIRTH #1.

Book Cyborg Vol  2  Danger in Detroit

Download or read book Cyborg Vol 2 Danger in Detroit written by John Semper Jr. and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CYBORG VOL. 2: DANGER IN DETROIT is a thrilling series by animation writer John Semper Jr. (Spider-Man: The Animated Series) and artists Will Conrad (NIGHTWING) and Paul Pelletier (AQUAMAN). Cyborg is the Justice LeagueÍs most high-tech hero, but can he withstand an attack by another of his brilliant fatherÍs creations? Captured by those he thought he could trust, Cyborg discovers a covert plot to use alien technology to start a world war. And when he winds up imprisoned in the heart of S.T.A.R. Labs, an unorthodox escape plan brings him face-to-face with Anomaly, a human-machine hybrid created by CyborgÍs father Silas years before Vic Stone became Cyborg! Only the now-missing Silas Stone holds the answers to the puzzle Anomaly presents, but before Cyborg can rescue his father, heÍll first have to free the city of Detroit from the villainy of the bizarre Lord of the Rats! Rocketing from the pages of DC REBIRTH: JUSTICE LEAGUE, CYBORG VOL. 2 collects issues #6-13.

Book Cyborg Vol  3  Singularity

Download or read book Cyborg Vol 3 Singularity written by John Semper Jr. and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The villainous Anomaly, a human/machine hybrid created by CyborgÕs father, has activated a device that threatens all reality! But before Cyborg can save the world, heÕll have to save himself and his friends from a bizarre alternate reality. In the streets of a Detroit overrun by mechanical men, only a parallel version of Beast Boy is immune to the mecha-human virus that turns everyone else into a monstrous hybrid. And even Anomaly, whoÕs seemingly responsible for all the chaos, doesnÕt know where they are or how to escape! A familiar figure offers the key to reclaiming the ravaged divergent reality from chaos and returning Cyborg and his compatriots home, but to succeed, theyÕll have to defeat not only the deadly threat of the Metal Men, but also the parallel worldÕs Cyborg, who has an agenda all his own! Cyborg Vol. 3: Singularity collects issues #14-20 of the thrilling series by animation writer John Semper Jr. (Spider-Man: The Animated Series) and artists Will Conrad (Nightwing), Allan Jefferson (Arrow) and others!

Book Cyborg Vol  2  Enemy of the State

Download or read book Cyborg Vol 2 Enemy of the State written by David Walker and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CYBORG—PROPERTY OF THE STATE! With his cybernetic tech continuing to evolve, Victor Stone may not know exactly what he is anymore, but he knows that he’s a hero. But ever since Vic helped to repel the alien invasion force called the Technosapiens, the U.S. government has been keeping a close eye on cybernetic enhancements. And that means they’re keeping a close eye on Cyborg. Now, a new piece of legislation called the Cybernetic Regulation Act has made Vic himself the property of the United States! And if the government gets their hands on him, they can use his technology to reverse-engineer the ultimate weapon…at the cost of Victor’s life. But Victor has a plan to find out what’s behind this sudden interest in cyber-enhanced individuals. It involves Shazam and Vic’s friends in the Justice League and putting himself right in his enemy’s clutches! Writers David F. Walker (NIGHTHAWK) and Marv Wolfman (NEW TEEN TITANS) and artists Felipe Watanabe (TEEN TITANS), Daniel HDR (SMALLVILLE SEASON 11) and Júlio Ferreira (BATWING) continue the solo adventures of the Justice League’s most high-tech hero! Collects CYBORG #7-12 and a special preview of CYBORG: REBIRTH #1.

Book Liquid Metal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sean Redmond
  • Publisher : Wallflower Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781903364871
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Liquid Metal written by Sean Redmond and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader brings together a great number of what are regarded to be the 'seminal' essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. It includes key essays by writers such as J.P. Telotte, Susan Sontag and Peter Biskind.

Book How We Became Posthuman

    Book Details:
  • Author : N. Katherine Hayles
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2008-05-15
  • ISBN : 0226321398
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book How We Became Posthuman written by N. Katherine Hayles and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age. Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman." Ranging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems. Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of where we might go from here.

Book The Allure of Machinic Life

Download or read book The Allure of Machinic Life written by John Johnston and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence that analyzes both the similarities and the differences among these sciences in actualizing life.The Allure of Machinic Life

Book Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life

Download or read book Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life written by Sarah Kember and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics rather than on the 'nature' of artificial life.

Book Cyborg Vol 1 Unplugged

Download or read book Cyborg Vol 1 Unplugged written by David Walker and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The machine that gives Cyborg his powers is evolving! The only problem is that the machine is his body - and he has no idea what's causing these changes!

Book Dreams of Archives Unfolded

Download or read book Dreams of Archives Unfolded written by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Archival dreams and Caribbean life writing -- 'Autobiography in a graveyard' : doors of no return and revolutionary failures -- Speculative autobiography : ghosts and feminist fugitivity -- Repicturing the picturesque : genealogical desire, archives, and descendant community autobiography -- Ashes to ashes, dust to dust : Indo-Caribbean archival impossibility -- "Put my mom in there" : Memorialization as Caribbean counter-archive -- Coda: Untelling history.

Book The Black Panther Party

Download or read book The Black Panther Party written by David F. Walker and published by Ten Speed Graphic. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD • A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the mainstream civil rights movement. This gripping illustrated history explores the impact and significance of the Panthers, from their social, educational, and healthcare programs that were designed to uplift the Black community to their battle against police brutality through citizen patrols and frequent clashes with the FBI, which targeted the Party from its outset. Using dramatic comic book-style retellings and illustrated profiles of key figures, The Black Panther Party captures the major events, people, and actions of the party, as well as their cultural and political influence and enduring legacy.

Book The Life of Frederick Douglass

Download or read book The Life of Frederick Douglass written by David F. Walker and published by Ten Speed Graphic. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based on his autobiographical writings and speeches, spotlighting the key events and people that shaped the life of this great American. Recently returned to the cultural spotlight, Frederick Douglass's impact on American history is felt even in today's current events. Comic book writer and filmmaker David F. Walker joins with the art team of Damon Smyth and Marissa Louise to bring the long, exciting, and influential life of Douglass to life in comic book form. Taking you from Douglass's life as a young slave through his forbidden education to his escape and growing prominence as a speaker, abolitionist, and influential cultural figure during the Civil War and beyond, The Life of Frederick Douglass presents a complete illustrated portrait of the man who stood up and spoke out for freedom and equality. Along the way, special features provide additional background on the history of slavery in the United States, the development of photography (which would play a key role in the spread of Douglass's image and influence), and the Civil War. Told from Douglass's point of view and based on his own writings, The Life of Frederick Douglass provides an up-close-and-personal look at a history-making American who was larger than life.

Book The Coevolution

Download or read book The Coevolution written by Edward Ashford Lee and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should digital technology be viewed as a new life form, sharing our ecosystem and coevolving with us? Are humans defining technology, or is technology defining humans? In this book, Edward Ashford Lee considers the case that we are less in control of the trajectory of technology than we think. It shapes us as much as we shape it, and it may be more defensible to think of technology as the result of a Darwinian coevolution than the result of top-down intelligent design. Richard Dawkins famously said that a chicken is an egg's way of making another egg. Is a human a computer's way of making another computer? To understand this question requires a deep dive into how evolution works, how humans are different from computers, and how the way technology develops resembles the emergence of a new life form on our planet. Lee presents the case for considering digital beings to be living, then offers counterarguments. What we humans do with our minds is more than computation, and what digital systems do—be teleported at the speed of light, backed up, and restored—may never be possible for humans. To believe that we are simply computations, he argues, is a “dataist” faith and scientifically indefensible. Digital beings depend on humans—and humans depend on digital beings. More likely than a planetary wipe-out of humanity is an ongoing, symbiotic coevolution of culture and technology.

Book He  She and It

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marge Piercy
  • Publisher : Fawcett
  • Release : 2010-11-24
  • ISBN : 0307775224
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book He She and It written by Marge Piercy and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down."—Alice Hoffman In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah, the brilliant grandmother who raised her, and meets an extraordinary man who is not a man at all, but a unique cyborg implanted with intelligence, emotions—and the ability to kill. . . . From the imagination of Marge Piercy comes yet another stunning novel of morality and courage, a bold adventure of women, men, and the world of tomorrow.

Book Androids  Cyborgs  and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society

Download or read book Androids Cyborgs and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society written by Thompson, Steven John and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mankind’s dependence on artificial intelligence and robotics is increasing rapidly as technology becomes more advanced. Finding a way to seamlessly intertwine these two worlds will help boost productivity in society and aid in a variety of ways in modern civilization. Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society is an essential scholarly resource that delves into the current issues, methodologies, and trends relating to advanced robotic technology in the modern world. Featuring relevant topics that include STEM technologies, brain-controlled androids, biped robots, and media perception, this publication is ideal for engineers, academicians, students, and researchers that would like to stay current with the latest developments in the world of evolving robotics.

Book Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots

Download or read book Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots written by Yoseph Bar-Cohen and published by SPIE Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multidisciplinary issues involved in the development of biologically inspired intelligent robots include materials, actuators, sensors, structures, functionality, control, intelligence, and autonomy. This book reviews various aspects ranging from the biological model to the vision for the future.

Book The Knife of Never Letting Go

Download or read book The Knife of Never Letting Go written by Patrick Ness and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard – and the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret. Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.