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Author: J. Brown
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-08-18
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0230109772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org . Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity.
Author: Donna J. Haraway
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 145295013X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElectrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently challenges—of human and machine but also of gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and location—are increasingly complex. The subsequent “Companion Species Manifesto,” which further questions the human–nonhuman disjunction, is no less urgently needed in our time of environmental crisis and profound polarization. Manifestly Haraway brings together these momentous manifestos to expose the continuity and ramifying force of Haraway’s thought, whose significance emerges with engaging immediacy in a sustained conversation between the author and her long-term friend and colleague Cary Wolfe. Reading cyborgs and companion species through and with each other, Haraway and Wolfe join in a wide-ranging exchange on the history and meaning of the manifestos in the context of biopolitics, feminism, Marxism, human–nonhuman relationships, making kin, literary tropes, material semiotics, the negative way of knowing, secular Catholicism, and more. The conversation ends by revealing the early stages of Haraway’s “Chthulucene Manifesto,” in tension with the teleologies of the doleful Anthropocene and the exterminationist Capitalocene. Deeply dedicated to a diverse and robust earthly flourishing, Manifestly Haraway promises to reignite needed discussion in and out of the academy about biologies, technologies, histories, and still possible futures.
Author: Benoit Lanteigne
Publisher: Benoit Lanteigne
Published: 2025-01-06
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 173875264X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThat face… that letter pattern… my brain warned me I should recognize them, but my heart refused to listen. It didn’t make sense. Did the Doctor really want me to believe he was him? James and everyone else are still reeling from the hostage crisis brought on by BBR. That defeat’s wounds are still raw, but there’s little for healing. A special piece of equipment is being transferred to an Ostarkiran research center. By pure luck, this is the first location infiltrated by a new batch of Nirnivian spies. Commander Daniel Ricdeau springs into action without hesitation. Securing the mysterious cargo takes priority beyond almost anything else. At the last minute, NISDA drafts a plan and forms an infiltration team. Given the lack of time for preparation, chances of success seem dire, but thanks to their man on the inside, perhaps they have a chance. As the mission begins, Doctor Deah, the cybernetic Ostarkiran President, contacts James again. At last, the cyborg grows tired of games and riddles and tells his entire story. The revelations about his identity and their implications left James reeling. Should they be true, then it puts everything concerning his relationship with Rose, and even his presence in this other universe, into question. But can James trust the President? He still has doubts, but the Cyborg promises to provide proof by the end of their conversation. Who is the mysterious cyborg? Why does he seek to capture Rose? What about the soldiers sent on the special mission? Will they succeed, or will they perish in a futile attempt at striking a blow at Ostark? Perhaps most important of all, isn’t the timing of the Cyborg’s call a little suspicious? Book 5 of The Cyborg’s Crusade
Author: Franny Choi
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 71
ISBN-13: 1948579553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParis Review Staff Pick A Book Riot Must-Read Poetry Collection Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness—how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation. We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of technology, violence, erasure, agency, gender, and loneliness. "Choi creates an exhilarating matrix of poetry, science, and technology." —Publishers Weekly "Franny Choi combines technology and poetry to stunning effect." –BUSTLE “…these beautiful, fractal-like poems are meditations on identity and autonomy and offer consciousness-expanding forays into topics like violence and gender, love and isolation.” –NYLON
Author: Eugene Lim
Publisher: FSG Originals
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 0374716412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of Vol. 1 Brooklyn's Favorite Fiction Books of 2017, a Literary Hub Staff Favorite Book of 2017, and one of BOMB Magazine's "Looking Back on 2017: Literature" Selections. "Wondrous . . . [A] sense of the erratic and tangential quality of everyday life—even if it’s displaced into a bizarre, parallel world—drifts off the page, into the world you see, after reading Dear Cyborgs." —Hua Hsu, The New Yorker In a small Midwestern town, two Asian American boys bond over their outcast status and a mutual love of comic books. Meanwhile, in an alternative or perhaps future universe, a team of superheroes ponder modern society during their time off. Between black-ops missions and rescuing hostages, they swap stories of artistic malaise and muse on the seemingly inescapable grip of market economics. Gleefully toying with the conventions of the novel, Dear Cyborgs weaves together the story of a friendship’s dissolution with a provocative and timely meditation on protest. Through a series of linked monologues, a lively cast of characters explores narratives of resistance—protest art, eco-terrorists, Occupy squatters, pyromaniacal militants—and the extent to which any of these can truly withstand and influence the cold demands of contemporary capitalism. All the while, a mysterious cybernetic book of clairvoyance beckons, and trusted allies start to disappear. Entwining comic-book villains with cultural critiques, Eugene Lim’s Dear Cyborgs is a fleet-footed literary exploration of power, friendship, and creativity. Ambitious and knowing, it combines detective pulps, subversive philosophy, and Hollywood chase scenes, unfolding like the composites and revelations of a dream.
Author: Marv Wolfman
Publisher: DC Comics
Published: 1982-07-07
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13:
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Author: Jenny Wolmark
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCyberspace, the cyborg and cyberpunk have given feminists new imaginative possibilities for thinking about embodiment and identity in relation to technology. This is the first anthology of the key essays on these potent metaphors. Divided into three sections (Technology, Embodiment and Cyberspace; Cybersubjects: Cyborgs and Cyberpunks; Cyborg Futures), the book addresses different aspects of the human-technology interface. The extensive introduction surveys the ways cyborg and cyberspace metaphors have been used in relation to current critical theory and indicates the context for the specific essays. This is an invaluable guide for students studying any aspects of contemporary theory and culture.* Brings together in a unique collection the work of key authors in feminist and cyber theory* Demonstrates the wide range of contemporary critical work* Challenges constructions of gender, race and class* An extensive introduction surveys the ways cyborg and cyberspace metaphors have been used in relation to current critical theory* Brief section introductions indicate the context for the specific essays
Author: Margret Grebowicz
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-06-18
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0231520735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores her influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying particular attention to her more recent work on companion species, rather than her "Manifesto for Cyborgs." Margret Grebowicz and Helen Merrick argue that the ongoing fascination with, and re-production of, the cyborg has overshadowed Haraway's extensive body of work in ways that run counter to her own transdisciplinary practices. Sparked by their own personal "adventures" with Haraway's work, the authors offer readings of her texts framed by a series of theoretical and political perspectives: feminist materialism, standpoint epistemology, radical democratic theory, queer theory, and even science fiction. They situate Haraway's critical storytelling and "risky reading" practices as forms of feminist methodology and recognize her passionate engagement with "naturecultures" as the theoretical core driving her work. Chapters situate Haraway as critic, theorist, biologist, feminist, historian, and humorist, exploring the full range of her identities and reflecting her commitment to embodying all of these modes simultaneously.
Author: Sasha Fletcher
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2022-02-15
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1612199488
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This emotionally resonant dystopian succeeds at turning the end of the world into a new beginning." - Publishers Weekly A love story set in a bad dream about America, concerning permanent debt, secret police, making dinner, and unpaid invoices—right up until the end of the world. It’s Brooklyn. It’s winter. It’s so cold outside you could execute billionaires in the street about it. Sam lives with Eleanor and they are in love. He has three or four outstanding invoices that would each cover rent for a month. At some point, the President is going to make some absolutely wild announcements that will only end in doom. In a surreal, funny, and heart-breaking version of reality, Sasha Fletcher’s highly anticipated first novel occupies that rare register that manages to speak to an increasingly incomprehensible world. Through scenes that poetically transform the mundane into the sublime and the absurd into the tragic, Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World is about the exquisite beauty of being in love in a world that is falling apart.
Author: Gill Haddow
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published:
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1526156326
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