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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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Will translators be cyborgs? What would make a cyborg translator?
Revista Tradumàtica, 2022 Previous literature on cyborg translators focus mainly on machine translation as the ultimate science fiction. In 2022 it is relevant to talk about cyborg translators beyond just machine translation to picture new challenges.
Olga Torres-Hostench
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THE RISE OF CYBORG CULTURE OR THE BOMB WAS A CYBORG [PDF]
Surfaces, 2019 Pictured by the author as a cybernetic rather than an atomic age, the Cold War is shown to be structured by the quest for a cybernetic modelling of human intelligence capable to eliminate uncertainty. The rise of the cyborg figure in science fiction is brought into consideration as an illustration.
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng +2 more
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the last decade, policy actors have produced a surge of “future of work” reports that reimagine workers through the dual logics of digitalization and human capital. Drawing on 25 policy documents (WEF, World Bank, OECD, EU, and major consultancies) and combining Bacchi and Goodwin's WPR approach with decolonial feminist theory, this paper
Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday
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Hybridization and Empowerment: exploring the postmodern self in the context of cyborg feminism [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical InvestigationsThe emergence of postmodernism has noticeably redefined the notion of the “self,” presenting it as a deconstructed postmodern subject. In this context, the postmodern self appears polysemic and decentered, embodying prominent characteristics of ...
Fatemeh Mozafari, Firouzeh Ameri
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Transgressive Automatons. Re-Visioning the Cyborg in Larissa Lai’s Rachel
Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, 2023 The article aims to analyze the ways in which Larissa Lai, in her short story Rachel, appropriates and racializes the figure of the cyborg by re-visioning and retelling the story of one of the most ...
Agnieszka Podruczna
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Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To examine how artificial intelligence (AI) influences the definition, enactment and preservation of person‐centred fundamental care in healthcare contexts, and to develop a complementary framework that positions care as a design constraint. Design Theoretically informed case analysis.
Amina Silva +2 more
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Posthumanism and Cybernetic Art: An Esthetic Exploration of Technology and Human Identity
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Posthumanism is a contemporary intellectual movement that redefines the relationship between humans, technology, biology, and culture. While questioning the traditional humanist perspective that places humans at the center of the universe, it also examines the transformative effects of technology on human identity.
Evren Kavukcu
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