Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: Modified: Living As A Cyborg
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc
Barcode: 9780815364016
Pages: 318 Pages, 2 Line Drawings, Black And White; 77 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 10/8/2020
Category: Sociology