We Have Always Been Cyborgs
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We Have Always Been Cyborgs
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Author : Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2021-11-04
We Have Always Been Cyborgs written by Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-04 with Social Science categories.
The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain–computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension. Despite its enduring influence in the public imagination, a fully developed philosophy of transhumanism has not yet been presented. In this new book, leading philosopher Stefan Lorenz Sorgner explores the critical issues that link transhumanism with digitalization, gene technologies and ethics. He examines the history and meaning of transhumanism and asks bold questions about human perfection, cyborgs, genetically enhanced entities, and uploaded minds. Offering insightful reflections on values, norms and utopia, this will be an important guide for readers interested in contemporary digital culture, gene ethics, and policy making.
We Have Always Been Cyborgs
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Author : Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2023-04
We Have Always Been Cyborgs written by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04 with Artificial intelligence categories.
This visionary new book explores the critical issues that link transhumanism with digitalisation, gene technologies and ethics.
Natural Born Cyborgs
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Author : Andy Clark
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-06-05
Natural Born Cyborgs written by Andy Clark and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-05 with Computers categories.
From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark sees it differently. Cyborgs, he writes, are not something to be feared--we already are cyborgs. In Natural-Born Cyborgs, Clark argues that what makes humans so different from other species is our capacity to fully incorporate tools and supporting cultural practices into our existence. Technology as simple as writing on a sketchpad, as familiar as Google or a cellular phone, and as potentially revolutionary as mind-extending neural implants--all exploit our brains' astonishingly plastic nature. Our minds are primed to seek out and incorporate non-biological resources, so that we actually think and feel through our best technologies. Drawing on his expertise in cognitive science, Clark demonstrates that our sense of self and of physical presence can be expanded to a remarkable extent, placing the long-existing telephone and the emerging technology of telepresence on the same continuum. He explores ways in which we have adapted our lives to make use of technology (the measurement of time, for example, has wrought enormous changes in human existence), as well as ways in which increasingly fluid technologies can adapt to individual users during normal use. Bio-technological unions, Clark argues, are evolving with a speed never seen before in history. As we enter an age of wearable computers, sensory augmentation, wireless devices, intelligent environments, thought-controlled prosthetics, and rapid-fire information search and retrieval, the line between the user and her tools grows thinner day by day. "This double whammy of plastic brains and increasingly responsive and well-fitted tools creates an unprecedented opportunity for ever-closer kinds of human-machine merger," he writes, arguing that such a merger is entirely natural. A stunning new look at the human brain and the human self, Natural Born Cyborgs reveals how our technology is indeed inseparable from who we are and how we think.
The Cyborg Experiments
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Author : Joanna Zylinska
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2002-06-13
The Cyborg Experiments written by Joanna Zylinska and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-13 with Philosophy categories.
The Cyborg Experiments analyzes the challenges posed to corporeality by techology. Taking as their starting point the work of the highly influential performance artists Orlan and Stelarc, the essays in this timely and important collection raise a number of questions in relation to new conceptions of embodiment, identity and otherness in the age of new technologies: Has the body become obsolete? Does transgender challenge traditional ideas of agency? Have we always been cyborgs?In addition to highlighting the playful character of digital aesthetics, the contributors investigate ethical issues concerning the ownership of our bodies and the experiments we perform on them. In this way the book explores how humanism, and ideas of "the human", have been placed under increasing scrutiny as a result of new developments in science, media and communications.Contributors:John Appleby, Rachel Armstrong, Fred Botting, Julie Clarke, Gary Hall, Chris Hables Gray, Meredith Jones, Orlan, Mark Poster, Jay Prosser, E. A. Scheer, Zod Sofia, Stelarc, Scott Wilson, Joanna Zylinska
To Be A Machine
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Author : Mark O'Connell
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2017-03-02
To Be A Machine written by Mark O'Connell and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Computers categories.
WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018 Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 A stunning new non-fiction voice tackles an urgent question... what next for mankind? 'Troubling and humorous, this is one of my current give-it-to-everyone books - I buy six copies at a time' Jeanette Winterson
The Capsular Civilization
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Author : Lieven de Cauter
language : en
Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
Release Date : 2004
The Capsular Civilization written by Lieven de Cauter and has been published by Nai010 Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.
Front cover images: Bob Hawke, ACTU Congress, 15 September 1979 (Fairfax, © Michael Rayner); Gough Whitlam on the steps of Parliament House, 11 November 1975 (Australian Labor Party); Paul Keating, National Press Club, March 1996 Election Campaign (Newspix); John Curtin, wartime rally, 1942 (Fairfax).Graham Freudenberg, Australia's greatest speechwriter, says "the Australian Labor Party was built on speeches." This book brings together great Labor speeches which give voice to the party's enduring values and achievements, and place it and its principal figures at the centre of historic events.There are speeches that stir the imagination and inspire, speeches that appeal to humanity, speeches of sorrow and redemption, speeches that urge moderation and caution, speeches that call for courage in the face of adversity, speeches that seek to mute the trumpet sound of war, speeches that attack the forces of conservatism, and speeches which celebrate and mourn the party's fallen.Chris Watson articulates Labor's purpose as "a light upon a mountain" - four decades beforeBen Chifley's famed "light on the hill" speech John Curtin tells a hushed parliament that "a great naval battle is proceeding"Gough Whitlam declares "It's time" for a new Labor governmentBob Hawke's urges South Africa's apartheid leaders to listen to "the spirit of men and women yearning to be free"Paul Keating's belief in Labor as "the people who can dream the big dreams and do the big things"Kevin Rudd says "We are Sorry" to the stolen generations of Aboriginal AustraliansClip from the author, reproduced with permission from The Australian:http://video.theaustralian.com.au/2305217661/Labors-greatest-speeches
Philosophy Of Posthuman Art
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Author : Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
language : en
Publisher: Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
Release Date : 2022-06-13
Philosophy Of Posthuman Art written by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and has been published by Schwabe Verlag (Basel) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-13 with Philosophy categories.
Aesthetic reflections by various members of the Frankfurt school have dominated the art world for many decades. Sorgner shows that they introduced a paternalistic logic in the field of aesthetics while attempting to overcome paternalism. His art philosophical alternative reveals the option of creating non-totalitarian total works of art. The wide spectrum of posthuman artworks reveals the immense diversity of nontotalitarian total works of art. "A deeply considered survey of the posthuman future of art. Sorgner's philosophy of posthumanism provides a path away from the dominant 20th-century aesthetics that still inform our conception of art today. Through the innovative concept of the 'twist,' Sorgner's encyclopedic text frames posthumanism as the foundation of an anti-totalitarian future of art." Eduardo Kac "Philosophy of Posthuman Art impressively examines the aesthetics of the monstrous, of hybridity, of smoothness and of the amorphous, to name a few. It is an articulate and informed analysis not only of particular artworks but also their philosophical underpinnings of Critical Posthumanism, Transhumanism and Metahumanism. It not only includes examples of bioart, body art, performance art and cryptoart, but also techno, digital and cyborg music. It is a time when we transition from the ontology of Being to the ontology of Becoming. We are now in a liminal age of the hybrid and the chimera. And as Stefan Lorenz Sorgner reminds us, with a twist, we have always been cyborgs." Stelarc
The Cyborg Handbook
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Author : Chris Hables Gray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Cyborg Handbook written by Chris Hables Gray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Computers categories.
On cybernetic organisms (cyborgs)
Adam
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Author : Eve Langlais
language : en
Publisher: Eve Langlais
Release Date : 2015-03-17
Adam written by Eve Langlais and has been published by Eve Langlais this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-17 with Fiction categories.
On Earth, when a rebel cyborg leader is drawn into a search for answers, he doesn’t expect things to blow up. And he’s not just talking about his house. Somehow his heart explodes, too, with the last thing he ever expected—love. Adam survived the great cyborg purge because the military made a mistake, a mistake they lived to regret. They crossed the line when they decided to take away his free will and turn him into a machine. They erroneously thought him a slave they could command. However, their biggest screw up of all was when they didn’t terminate him at the first sign cyborgs were regaining sentience. As the rebel cyborg leader on Earth, Adam is doing everything he can to rescue others of his kind. Part of his current, undercover mission involves infiltrating a top secret military facility where he comes in contact with a human scientist. A sexy scientist whom he’s ordered to protect. What should have been an easy job turns into a fight for his life because it’s not just bullets and hit squads he’s got to worry about, but his heart. How can one fragile female mean so much? It’s almost too much for a rational-minded cyborg to understand. When the choice is given, escape or let her die, he lets his heart decide, and that's when things begin to explode—literally. Cyborgs More than Machines series: C791, F814, B785, Aramus, Seth, Adam, Avion Genre: A Cyborg romance with dark humor, an alpha male, some humans you'll hate and cool twists that will leave you craving for a machine lover of your own. (genetic engineering, sci-fi romance, space opera, fantasy romance, futuristic romance, dark romance, paranormal romance, sfr, android, military conspiracy)
Letters To The Cyborgs
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Author : Judyth Baker
language : en
Publisher: TrineDay
Release Date : 2016-06-30
Letters To The Cyborgs written by Judyth Baker and has been published by TrineDay this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-30 with Fiction categories.
Letters to the Cyborgs describes a frightening future about to land on our doorsteps, based on inventions, science and technology we have today. Each story details the political, social, and environmental destruction of our world as Artificial Intelligence takes over the planet. With intelligence, insight and humor, Baker examines what it means to be human in a world where Cyborgs and robots rule. Ranging from chilling visions of Armageddon to haunting stories of the power of human love, with some comic relief thrown in to make the truth easier to handle, this groundbreaking collection of short stories faces the questions scientists, politicians and corporations are ignoring: when Artificial Intelligence becomes "self-aware" and is a thousand times more intelligent than any human being, what happens next? Scientists tell us that this "Singularity" will occur by 2030. "What is human?" will become the most important question in history as humans become 51% or more machine.