Cyborg Citizen
eBook - ePub

Cyborg Citizen

Politics in the Posthuman Age

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Cyborg Citizen

Politics in the Posthuman Age

About this book

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.

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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
Associat...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. A Note on Texts
  9. Slouching Toward the Posthuman—Does Participatory Evolution Require Participatory Government?
  10. postmodern politics
  11. promulgating cyborgs
  12. cyborg society
  13. cyborgology
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index