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The coming of the Mundane Cyborg

open access: yesRevista Teknokultura, 2011
A number of scholars have attempted to outline both a field of “cyborgology” and a set of dominant concerns and tropes concerning the phenomena of accelerating human-machine hybrids. This article argues that, in contrast to popular conceptions of cyborgs
Steven Mentor
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Cyborg Spirituality [PDF]

open access: yesMedical History, 2011
This article explores crossovers from Eastern philosophy and spirituality to contemporary science and medicine in the West. My interest is not so much in specific lines of historical transmission, as in the channels through which they flow. In particular, my argument is that different ontologies – visions of how the world is – either facilitate or ...
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Race as Technology: From Posthuman Cyborg to Human Industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Cyborg and prosthetic technologies frame prominent posthumanist approaches to understanding the nature of race. But these frameworks struggle to accommodate the phenomena of racial passing and racial travel, and their posthumanist orientation blurs ...
Jones, Holly, Jones, Nicholaos
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Redefiniciones: Los Otros góticos

open access: yesMistral, 2021
This article addresses a redefinition of the Gothic genre as a “Red Gothic,” a term that I coin to define the visceral traits of literary and artistic productions of the “horror” genre in Latin America.
Marta Sierra
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Cyborg Rights [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 2010
Recent decades have seen increased incidence of interventions with the bodies of human beings. These interventions raise a variety of questions about rights. Some relate to the right to have the intervention performed, or not performed. Others involve the rights of people who have already been the subject of an intervention.
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We know what we are, but not what we may be

open access: yesThe Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2006
This essay attempts to trace a personal journey from a liberal humanist stance to an awareness of non-dualism within the altering landscape of contemporary advances in technology.
Dennis Schauffer
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Writing the mother, the mother writing: the space of motherhood and feminine écriture in Alien and The Matrix - DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v32i1.5629

open access: yesActa Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2009
The series of films Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Alien (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997), and the 1999 movie The Matrix illustrate the present state of technological advances in reproductive areas, and posit the anxiety such advances represents.
Eva Paulino Bueno
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O Futuro já começou: cyborgs, biotecnologias e ciências de Enfermagem

open access: yesPensar Enfermagem, 2014
Atualmente as Ciências de Enfermagem encontram-se num momento de transição paradigmática. O objetivo deste artigo é refletir sobre novos paradigmas epistemológicos nas ciências de enfermagem, numa perspetiva crítica.
Ana Paula Teixeira de Almeida Vieira Monteiro
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Cyborgs, Tryborgs, Techno-Ableismus

open access: yesOpen Gender Journal, 2023
Die feministischen Disability Studies haben stets ein verwickeltes Verhältnis zur Ikone feministischer Technikkritik – der Cyborgfigur – unterhalten.
Ute Kalender
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