Overview

"The creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook , Chris Hables Gray, here 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."

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Author:   Chris Hables Gray
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9780415919791

ISBN 10:   0415919797
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   08 February 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

A Note on Texts. Slouching Toward the Posthuman-Does Participatory Evolution Require Participatory Government? Post Modern Politics. 1 The Cyborg Body Politic. 2 Citizenship in the Age of Electronic Production. 3 Cybocracy, Mobocracy, and Democracy. 4 Cyborg Warriors. Promulgating Cyborgs. 5 Infomedicine and the New Body. 6 Cybernetic Human Reproduction. 7 Enabled Cyborgs, Living and Dead. 8 The Hopeful Monsters of Genetic Engineering. Cyborg Society. 9 Prosthetic Territories: Cybercolonizations. 10 Cyborg Families. 11 Sex Machines, Human Beings, In-betweens. 12 Taylored Lives: Microserfs and Superheroes in the Age of Semiintelligent Machines. Cyberology. 13 Sciences of the Third Millenium. 14 Posthuman Possibilities.

Reviews

[An] eruption of tomorrow's topics..... <br>-Andrei Yuri Lubomudrov, Willamette Week <br>... insightful and well formulated.. <br>-Andrei Yuri Lubomudrov, Willamette Week <br> An intriguing social survey perfect for discussion groups.. <br>-Reviewer's Bookwatch <br>... a supremely readable book, enlivened by weird science and slap-shot one-liners.. <br>- Wired, Mark Dery, May 2001 <br>... Cyborg Citizen is a ripping good yarn-just the thing for Dr. Moreau's waiting room.. <br>- Wired, Mark Dery, May 2001 <br>

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Authored by Gray, Chris Hables

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