دانلود کتاب Modified: Living as a Cyborg

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
“You Are a Cyborg; Deal With It!”: The Overdetermination of Cyborgization
A Quarter Century of Cyborgization
Meanings of Modification
Overdetermination and Cyborgology
Cyborg Ex Machina?
Notes
References
About the Authors
Part 1 Being a Cyborg Is My Job
1 Modifeyed: Why Priveillance Is More Important to Our Cyborg Future Than Privacy
A Childhood Exploring
“Privacy” is Surveillance
The Right to Keep Differences Truly Private
References
2 The Avatars of alpha.tribe
Introduction: The Metaverse, Avatars and the Multiplied Self
Alpha, Xia, Alpho, Grapho and Amina…
Notes
References
3 Tanks, the Shield of Achilles, and Social Cyborgs
About the Author
4 Experiments With Cyborg Technology
Introduction
Experiment 1
Experiment 1 – Rationale
Experiment 2
Experiment 2 – Rationale
Comments
References
5 The Body Vehicle: An Argument for Transhuman Bodies
Evolving Human
Stages of Transformation
Transhuman Bodies
Threshold of Knowledge: A Transhuman Practice
Conclusion
References
6 When I first Saw Jesus, he was Cyborg
References
Part 2 Being a Cyborg for My Health
7 Pers. ex.
About the Author
8 Infusiones/Infusions: Estampas Itinerantes en Mi Tratamento de Cáncer/Itinerant Portraits in My Cancer Treatment
El animal que llevamos dentro/The Animal Within
Descabellada/”Descabellada”
Yo, cyborg?/I, cyborg?
About the Author
9 To See With Eyes Unshielded: Perceiving Life as a Partible Cyborg
Glasses
Cane
Screenreader
Reflections
References
10 “Don’t Mess With My Heart Device, I’ll do it Myself.”
In Which Karen and Marie Interview Each Other
About the Authors
11 Becoming an Accidental Cyborg Feminist Socialist
Notes
About the Author
12 The Ghost in the Biome
About the Author
13 “Cyborg” “Mom”
Notes
About the Author
Part 3 Imagining Myself Cyborg
14 Cyborgian Episteme as Queer Art-science
Prolog
Bare Life and Radical Knowledge Potentialities
Rigour, Errors, and Queer Knowledge
Concluding the Status Quo, Skewing the Norm
The Art-Science Disciplinary Matrix in the A-S/S-A
Reference
15 Computer Kid
References
16 Seven Ghosts: Critical Confessions of a Psyborg Mind
Ghost 1
The ‘Imitatio Dei’
Ghost 2
The Ectoplasm
Ghost 3
The Division
Ghost 4
The Echo
Ghost 5
The Breath
Ghost 6
Phantasmagoria
Ghost 7
The Abnormality
Artwork Description
About the Author
17 A Mundane Cyborg: The Smartphone, the Body, and the City
Cities and Phones Shaping Cyborgs
Making Appointments with Cyborgs Outside Phone Booths
Performing as a Mundane Cyborg with a Smartphone
Seeing Transfigurations in Urban Streets or Subways
Vulnerable to Breakdowns
References
18 To Be Transhumanist, Or Not To Be
A Transhumanist Manifesto
Preamble
Part I: Biology (w)as Destiny
Part II: Hacking Destiny – The Transhuman Cyborg
Part III: Disembodied Augmented Intelligence
Conditions:
Non-discrimination with regard to substrate
Emotional Intelligence
Minimize Suffering
Conclusion:
On Manifestos and Dilemmas
19 On Cultural Cyborgs
Coda
References
Part 4 Performing My Cyborgness
20 Waiting for Earthquakes
About the Author
21 My Cyborg Performance as a Techno-Cerebral Subject
The Neuroscientific Theater
The Experiments
The Cyborg Constitution
The Screening
The Cyborg Experience
Intentionality
Biomechanical-Physical Experience
Relaxation
Paradoxes of Control
Returning to the Morphological Wholeness
Notes
References
22 A Song for the Universe in the Dialect of Terran Cyborg Companions
To the Ooankali and Other Creatures of the Universe
About the Author
23 Modulating
About the Author
24 Zombies, Cyborgs and Chimeras: Alternate Anatomical Architectures
Uncertain, Anxious and Obsolete
Neither/Nor
Excess, Extrusion and Indifference
Zombies and Cyborgs
Neither Birth Nor Death
Circulating Flesh
Fractal Flesh/Phantom Flesh
Inverse Embodiment/Endo Architecture
Alternate Anatomical Architectures
The Uncanny, the Creepy and the Catastrophic
From Third Life to Real Life
Skins as Screens
Bioart
Floating Signifier
Contestable Futures
About the Author
Part 5 Thinking Myself a Cyborg
25 I, Cyborgologist
26 Cyborg Empathy for the Age of (In)Difference
Cyborg Society
Field-diary 2006
Field-diary 2007
Field-diary 2017
Field-diary 2019
Cyborg Empathy
Cyborg Empathy for a Cyborg Society
References
27 Being a Cyborg in a Connected World Increasingly Mediated by Algorithms: From the Perspective of Two Brazilian Journalists
Robots Arise in Brazilian Journalism
Facebook and the Brazilian Election: Would it be ‘left-checking’?
Final Considerations
References
28 Social Challenges: The Serious Game of Digitalization
Found Imaginaries
Viral Challenges: Types and Variations
What Moves Us to Do These Things?
Serious Games
Between Digital Games and Distinctions
Rituals and Dis/Continual Convergences
Acknowledgments
About the Author
29 Disc/erning the Crisis: A Mundane Cyborg Throws Hope to the Wind
References
30 The Best Possible Now
Note
About the Authors
Artist\'s comment
Illustrations
Index