Cyborg Citizen

Politics in the Posthuman Age

Chris Hables Gray

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Année: 2000
• ISBN:
  9781135221911
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Informatique
• Sous-sujet: Intelligence artificielle (IA) et sémantique

The growing synergy of humans and technology--from dialysis to genetically altered foods to PET scans--is transforming how we view our minds and our bodies. But how has it changed the body politic? How can we forge a society that protects the rights of human and cyborg alike?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. For good or ill, politics has already been cyborged in ways that touch us all: On-line voting promises to change who participates. Wars are won on video screens. Biotechnological advances-- cloning, sexual prostheses, gene patents--are redefining life, death, and family in ways that strain the social contract. In the face of these advances, visions of the cyborg future range from the utopian to the nightmarish, from a spiritual super-race transcending the body's confines to a soulless Borg consuming human individuality.Only with a broad, historically rich and ethically grounded understanding of these issues, Gray argues, can we combat the threats to our freedom and even our survival. A work of vision and imagination, Cyborg Citizen lays the groundwork for the participatory evolution of our society.

index

A

Abortions, sex based, 125

Abraham, Ralph, 185

ABS Global, 122

Action figures are cyborgs, 199

Adleman, Leonard, 183–184

Advanced Cell Technology, 122–123

Aegis weapon system, 57

Agency of actants, 30

Akutsu, Tetsuze and early artificial hearts, 77

Alwall, Nils, 75

AMA. See American Medical Association.

American. See United States.

American Academy of Pediatrics, 156

American Medical Association (AMA), 110

American Paralysis Association, 196

American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, 79

Anatomy is an epistemology, 158

Anarchy/anarchism/anarchists, 137

feminist, 187–188

the internet is, 48

Jeffersonian, 23

and libertarianism, 50

left, 187–188

-primitivists, 53

and the science wars, 185

and worker organizing, 162

Anderson, French, 119

Andrews, Lori, 121

Androstene, 172

Animals

experimentation and artificial organs, 76

vs. humans and machines, 84

Antibiotics. See Drugs, antibiotics.

Aristophanes, 152

Aristotle, 19

Artifacts have politics, 24

Artificial

blood, 74

cells, 74

heart, 76–80; funding for, 77, 78–79

intelligence, 178

kidney, 75

liver, 75–76

and natural, 184

organs, 73

sciences of the, 183

Asia Week, 82

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Table des matières

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• A Note on Texts
• Slouching Toward the Posthuman—Does Participatory Evolution Require Participatory Government?
• postmodern politics
• promulgating cyborgs
• cyborg society
• cyborgology
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index