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Hybrid child : a novel
\"A classic of Japanese speculative fiction that blurs the line between consumption and creation when a cyborg assumes the form and spirit of a murdered child.\"--Publisher's description.
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Posthuman Metamorphosis
From Dr. Moreau's Beast People to David Cronenberg's Brundlefly, Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the Cyberiad to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the Xenogenesis trilogy, Posthuman Metamorphosis examines modern and postmodern stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory. New media generate new metamorphs.New stories have emerged from cybernetic displacements of life, sensation, or intelligence from human beings to machines. But beyond the vogue for the cyborg and the cybernetic mash-up of the organic and the mechanical, Posthuman Metamorphosis develops neocybernetic systems theories illuminating alternative narratives that elicit autopoietic and symbiotic visions of the posthuman.Systems theory also transforms our modes of narrative cognition. Regarding narrative in the light of the autopoietic systems it brings into play, neocybernetics brings narrative theory into constructive relation with the systemic operations of observation, communication, and paradox.Posthuman Metamorphosis draws on Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Niklas Luhmann, Cary Wolfe, Mieke Bal, Katherine Hayles, Friedrich Kittler, and Lynn Margulis to read narratives of bodily metamorphosis as allegories of the contingencies of systems. Tracing the posthuman intuitions of both pre- and post-cybernetic metamorphs, it demonstrates the viability of second-order systems theories for narrative theory, media theory, cultural science studies, and literary criticism.
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The ghost in the shell : global neural network
\"A covert mission in Shanghai reunites Kusanagi with a wartime rival and shifting loyalties. Togusa and Saito set out to infiltrate a bio-supremacist gang, without the use of their cybernetics. A data thief living in the broken remnants of the United States is reuinted with an old flame and gets dragged into a tragedy that neither of them can stop. And a deep dive into the mind of a criminal forces Major Kusanagi to question the nature of imagination, and her own identity.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Espejo-eco-cyborg
Muchas veces, ante auditorios distintos, me he presentado como cyborg, para explicar la prostética auricular que complementa mi hipoacusia neurosensorial bilateral moderada, y también para introducir el ruego a la gente de que use un micrófono para hacer preguntas o comentarios en las conferencias; también me llamo cyborg para anteponer mi identificación como hipoacúsicx a otras identidades más espectaculares, como marica o lesbiana, y así eludir la aburrida asignación de identidades sexuales heterodesignadas por y desde el binario heterosexual/homosexual; para recordar que mi deseo no se restringe a un asunto de género y mi género a un asunto de genitales y órganos reproductivos, y yo todx a mi sexualidad, como si fuera lo único que soy por no cumplir el mandato heterosexual y cisgenerista. Yo, una metonimia.
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Does Ethical Judgment Determine the Decision to Become a Cyborg? Influence of Ethical Judgment on the Cyborg Market
Today, technological implants to increase innate human capabilities are already available on the market. Cyborgs, understood as healthy people who decide to integrate their bodies with insideable technology, are no longer science fiction, but fact. The cyborg market will be a huge new business with important consequences for both industry and society. More specifically, cyborg technologies are a unique product, with a potentially critical impact on the future of humanity. In light of the potential transformations involved in the creation of \"superhuman\" cyborgs, ethics must be a cornerstone of cyborg marketing decisions. Businesses need to take ethics into account, not only to ensure they behave ethically, as always, but also because ethics will be an important factor in buyers' decisions in the emerging cyborg market. This is because the decision to become a cyborg is determined, among many other factors, by ethical judgment. Our research focuses on how the dimensions of the Composite Multidimensional Ethics Scale (Composite MES) influence an individual's decision to become a cyborg. To test our hypotheses, we surveyed a total of 1563 higher-education students in seven different countries. The results of the survey show that ethical judgment will be a keystone in individual cyborgization. Specifically, ethical dimensions explained 48% of the intention to use cyborg technologies. The ethical analysis showed that not all MES dimensions have the same influence on the ethical judgment regarding this decision. Egoism was the most influential dimension, while contractualism was the least. These findings have important implications for both academia and business.
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Becoming human?: Ableism and control in 'Detroit: Become human' and the implications for human- machine communication
In human-machine communication (HMC), machines are communicative subjects in the creation of meaning. The Computers are Social Actors and constructivist approaches to HMC postulate that humans communicate with machines as if they were people. From this perspective, communication is understood as heavily scripted where humans mindlessly apply human-to-human scripts in HMC. We argue that a critical approach to communication scripts reveals how humans may rely on ableism as a means of sense-making in their relationships with machines. Using the choose-your-own-adventure game Detroit: Become Human as a case study, we demonstrate (a) how ableist communication scripts render machines as both less-than-human and superhuman and (b) how such scripts manifest in control and cyborg anxiety. We conclude with theoretical and design implications for rescripting ableist communication scripts.
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Terminator salvation : we fight back
\"The fourth installment of the Terminator series follows an adult John Connor (played by Christian Bale) as he attempts to organize a human resistance force which could prove to be mankind's last true hope in the war against the machines. Opening in the year 2018, Terminator Salvation finds John Connor's certainty about the future shaken by the sudden appearance of a mysterious stranger named Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), whose last memory is of sitting on death row and awaiting execution. Unable to determine whether Marcus was sent from the future or rescued from the past, Connor begins to wonder whether there is still any hope left for the human race as the robots grow more powerful and aggressive than ever before. It appears that Skynet is preparing a devastating final attack designed to eliminate the human resistance once and for all, leaving Connor and Marcus with no choice but to strike back at the cybernetic heart of Skynet's operations. Once there, the two battle-scarred soldiers discover a devastating secret regarding the potential annihilation of all humankind. Anton Yelchin fills Michael Biehn's shoes as a young Kyle Reese in the first installment of a planned Terminator trilogy from director McG (Charlie's Angels)\"--Allmovie.com, viewed December 28, 2018.
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Gear‐Switch‐Integrated Dual‐Mode Three‐Wheeled Exoskeleton that Empowers Cyborg Insects with Enhanced Open‐Loop Locomotion Control Precision and Load Capacity
Cyborg insects are potential alternatives to small artificial robots, with promising applications in areas such as confined space exploration. However, its low open‐loop locomotion control precision makes it difficult to perform tasks requiring precise control, while the number of sensors that can be carried is limited due to their low load capacity, which significantly limits its application scenarios. To this end, an exoskeleton is proposed herein, which significantly improves the locomotion control accuracy and load capacity of cyborg insects. The exoskeleton, with a peripheral size of 7.2 cm × 14 cm, employs three wheels to carry the load and control the direction of motion of the cyborg insect. The exoskeleton‐integrated cyborg insect excels in locomotion control precision. Without feedback control, it completes continuous circular and linear motions with minor offset errors. Compared to other cyborg insects, its load capacity is increased from less than 20–400 g or more, allowing it to be equipped with large, energy‐intensive sensors. In addition, the exoskeleton supports switching between high‐precision controlled motion and insect‐driven active exploration modes. This design broadens the application scenarios of the cyborg insect and opens the possibility of performing more complex tasks. Cyborg insects’ low open‐loop control precision and limited sensor payload hinder applications. This article introduces an exoskeleton that improves motion precision and payload capacity. With a 7.2 cm × 14 cm size, it enhances load capacity to over 400 g and enables high‐precision movement without feedback control, expanding application scenarios for more complex tasks.
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