Cyborg citizen : politics in the posthuman age / Chris Hables Gray.

  • Gray, Chris Hables.
Date:
2001
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

New York : Routledge, 2001.

Physical description

xiii, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

Slouching toward the posthuman: Does participatory evolution require participatory government? -- The cyborg body politic -- Citizenship in the age of electronic reproduction -- Cybocracy, mobocracy, and democracy -- Cyborg warriors -- Infomedicine and the new body -- Cybernetic human reproduction -- Enabled cyborgs, living and dead -- The hopeful monsters of genetic engineering -- Prosthetic territories: cybercolonializations -- Cyborg families -- Sex machines, human beings, in-betweens -- Taylored lives: microserfs and superheroes in the age of semiintelligent machines -- Sciences of the third millennium -- Posthuman possibilities.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-224) and index.

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    Medical Collection
    TA167 2000G75c
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ISBN

  • 0415919789
  • 0415919797