Technosex

Technosex

Author: Meenakshi Gigi Durham

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-13

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 3319281429

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In this book, Meenakshi Gigi Durham outlines and advances a progressive feminist framework for digital ethics in the technosexual landscape, exploring the complex and evolving interrelationships between sex and tech. Today we live in a “sexscape,” a globalized assemblage of media, transnational capital, sexual practices, and identities. Sexuality suffuses the contemporary media-saturated environment; we engage with sex via cellphone apps and airport TVs, billboards and Jumbotron screens. Our techniques of sexual representation and body transformation — from sexting to plastic surgeries — occur in relation to our deep and complex engagements with mediated images of desire. These technosexual interactions hold the promise of sexual liberation and boldly imaginative pleasures. But in the machinic suturing of technologies with bodies, the politics of race, class, gender, and nation continue to matter. Paying acute attention to media’s relationship to the politics of location, social hierarchies, and regulatory schemas, the author mounts a lucid and passionate argument for an ethics of technosex invested in the analysis of power.


Good Robot, Bad Robot

Good Robot, Bad Robot

Author: Jo Ann Oravec

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-09-30

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 3031140133

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This book explores how robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance human lives but also have unsettling “dark sides.” It examines expanding forms of negativity and anxiety about robots, AI, and autonomous vehicles as our human environments are reengineered for intelligent military and security systems and for optimal workplace and domestic operations. It focuses on the impacts of initiatives to make robot interactions more humanlike and less creepy (as with domestic and sex robots). It analyzes the emerging resistances against these entities in the wake of omnipresent AI applications (such as “killer robots” and ubiquitous surveillance). It unpacks efforts by developers to have ethical and social influences on robotics and AI, and confronts the AI hype that is designed to shield the entities from criticism. The book draws from science fiction, dramaturgical, ethical, and legal literatures as well as current research agendas of corporations. Engineers, implementers, and researchers have often encountered users' fears and aggressive actions against intelligent entities, especially in the wake of deaths of humans by robots and autonomous vehicles. The book is an invaluable resource for developers and researchers in the field, as well as curious readers who want to play proactive roles in shaping future technologies.


Sex, Technology and Public Health

Sex, Technology and Public Health

Author: M. Davis

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-11-27

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0230228380

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Exploring the implications of the internet and bio-technologies for intimate and sexual life, this book discusses the concept of citizenship in relation to the extension of public health through the internet, and reveals concerns that sexually transmitted infections and HIV are associated with such technologies.


CyberSociety

CyberSociety

Author: Steve Jones

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0803956770

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Deals with computer mediated communication


Virtual Politics

Virtual Politics

Author: Dr David Holmes, Llb

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1997-12-08

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781446240069

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Virtual Politics is a critical overview of the new - digital - body politic, with new technologies framing the discussion of key themes in social theory. This book shows how these new technologies are altering the nature of identity and agency, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation.


Body Talk

Body Talk

Author: Mary M. Lay

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780299167943

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This text explores the rhetoric of reproductive technology throughout the 20th century, examining the ways discourse about these technologies has shaped thinking about reproduction and women's bodies, framed public policy and empowered or marginalized points of view.


Cyborg Babies

Cyborg Babies

Author: Robbie Davis-Floyd

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1135240922

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


TechnoSex

TechnoSex

Author: Cecilia Tan

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780963397058

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"There are seven stories in this collection and not a dud among them. Each is a seamless blending of modern technology with good old fashioned smut. Technology unites this collection, but not by using a lot of gimmicks: it defines and reflects human interactions in an inventive and thought-provoking way, while firing up the hormones... The overall intelligence and grace of the writing is remarkable; it is so often lacking in this kind of literature". -- Paramour Magazine Did you know that at the turn of the previous century, the first widely used household small appliance was the handheld vibrator? Or that over 90% of the traffic on the Internet consists of sex-related discussion and material? It seems we human beings will commandeer any new technological invention, regardless its original intent, for sexual stimulation. So what more natural topic for a collection of erotic short stories than the future of that technology? Artificial intelligence, virtual reality, bionics and teledildonics, nanotechnology and genetic engineering, on the horizon of every innovations lies a new world of erotic possibilities and these authors explore them with verve and style.


Alien Constructions

Alien Constructions

Author: Patricia Melzer

Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 0292795823

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“An incisive critical work” that looks at Octavia Butler’s writing, the movies of the Matrix and Alien series—and more—through a feminist lens (Femspec). Feminist thinkers and writers are increasingly recognizing science fiction’s potential to shatter patriarchal and heterosexual norms, while the creators of science fiction are bringing new depth and complexity to the genre by engaging with feminist thewories and politics. This book maps the intersection of feminism and science fiction through close readings of science fiction literature by Octavia E. Butler, Richard Calder, and Melissa Scott and the movies The Matrix and the Alien series. Patricia Melzer analyzes how these authors and films represent debates and concepts in three areas of feminist thought: identity and difference, feminist critiques of science and technology, and the relationship among gender identity, body, and desire, including the new gender politics of queer desires, transgender, and intersexed bodies and identities. She demonstrates that key political elements shape these debates, including global capitalism and exploitative class relations within a growing international system; the impact of computer, industrial, and medical technologies on women’s lives and reproductive rights; and posthuman embodiment as expressed through biotechnologies, the body/machine interface, and the commodification of desire. Melzer’s investigation makes it clear that feminist writings and readings of science fiction are part of a feminist critique of existing power relations—and that the alien constructions (cyborgs, clones, androids, aliens, and hybrids) that populate postmodern science fiction are as potentially empowering as they are threatening.


The Sex Is Out of This World

The Sex Is Out of This World

Author: Sherry Ginn

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2012-11-08

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1476600864

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"Science fiction" can be translated into "real unreality." More than a genre like fantasy, which creates entirely new realms of possibility, science fiction constructs its possibilities from what is real, from what is, indeed, possible, or conceivably so. This collection, then, looks to understand and explore the "unreal reality," to note ways in which our culture's continually changing and evolving mores of sex and sexuality are reflected in, dissected by, and deconstructed through the genre of science fiction. This book is a collection of new essays, with the general objective of filling a gap in the literature about sex and science fiction (although some work has gone before, none of it is recent). The essays herein explore the myriad ways in which authors--regardless of format (print, film, television, etc.)--envision very different beings expressing this most fundamental of human behaviors.