Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: "You Are a Cyborg; Deal With It!" The Overdetermination of Cyborgization Part 1: Being a Cyborg Is My Job 1 Modifeyed: Why Privellance is More Important to Our Cyborg Future Than Privacy 2 The Avatars of alpha.tribe 3 Tanks, the Shield of Achilles, and Social Cyborgs 4 Experiments With Cyborg Technology 5 The Body Vehicle: An Argument for Transhuman Bodies 6 When I First Met Jesus He Was Cyborg Part 2: Being a Cyborg for My Health 7 Pers. ex. 8 Infusions/Infusiones 9 To see with eyes unshielded: Perceiving life as a partible cyborg 10 "Don't Mess with My Heart Device, I'll Do It Myself." In Which Karen and Marie Interview Each Other 11 Becoming an Accidental Cyborg Feminist Socialist 12 The Ghost in the Biome 13 "Cyborg" "Mom" Part 3: Imagining Myself Cyborg 14 Cyborgian Episteme as Queer Art-science 15 Computer Kid 16 Seven Ghosts: Critical Confessions of a Psyborg Mind 17 A Mundane Cyborg: The Smartphone, the Body, and the City 18 To Be Transhumanist, Or Not To Be 19 On Cultural Cyborgs Part 4: Performing My Cyborgness 20 Waiting for Earthquakes 21 My Cyborg Performance as a Techno-Cerebral Subject 22 A song for the Universe in the Dialect of Terran Cyborg Companions 23 Modulating 24 Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras: Alternative Anatomical Architectures Part 5: Thinking Myself a Cyborg 25 I, Cyborgologist 26 Cyborg Empathy for the Age of (In)Difference 27 Being a Cyborg in a Connected World Increasingly Mediated by Algorithms: From the Perspective of Two Brazilian Journalists 28 Social Challenges: The Serious Game of Digitalization 29 Disc/erning the Crisis: A Mundane Cyborg Throws Hope to the Wind 30 The Best Possible Now Artist's Comment
