Cyborg citizen
Subtitle: politics in the posthuman age
By: Chris Hables Gray.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Human-machine systems; Robotics; Cyborgs
Description: "The growing synergy of humans and technology - from dialysis to genetically altered foods to PET scans - is transforming how we view our minds and our bodies. But how has it changed the body politic? How can we forge a society that protects the rights of human and cyborg alike?".

"Chris Hables Gray now offers the first guide to "posthuman" politics, framing the key issues that could threaten or brighten our technological future. For good or ill, politics has already been cyborged in ways that touch us all. Cyberdemocracy is changing mainstream politics. Wars are being fought with cyborg soldiers and illusions of virtuality. Biotechnological advances - cloning, sexual prostheses, gene patents - are redefining life and the family in ways that strain the social contract.

Even death itself is being reconfigured." "Only with a broad, historically rich, and ethically grounded understanding of these issues, Gray argues, can we combat the threats to our freedom and even our survival. A work of vision and imagination, Cyborg Citizen lays the groundwork for the participatory evolution of our society."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Slouching toward the posthuman: Does participatory evolution require participatory government?; title: The cyborg body politic; title: Citizenship in the age of electronic reproduction; title: Cybocracy, mobocracy, and democracy; title: Cyborg warriors; title: Infomedicine and the new body; title: Cybernetic human reproduction; title: Enabled cyborgs, living and dead; title: The hopeful monsters of genetic engineering; title: Prosthetic territories: cybercolonializations; title: Cyborg families; title: Sex machines, human beings, in-betweens; title: Taylored lives: microserfs and superheroes in the age of semiintelligent machines; title: Sciences of the third millennium; title: Posthuman possibilities.