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Title: The Cyborg Handbook by Chris Hables Gray, Heidi J. Figuroa-Sarriera, Steven Mentor, Chris Habels Gray, Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera ISBN: 0-415-90849-3 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Holding a coveted spot on my shelf
Comment: I would not suggest this book for someone looking for a quick, easy answer to the world of cyborgs. There are papers here from dozens of authors, each talking about a wholly different aspect of the cyborg - some cover the idea that technology has already turned many of us into cyborgs, others that fetuses are cyborgs, some stick with the traditional notion of the cyborg as half-man half-machine, some examine the role of the cyborg in film. It takes all kinds. And, in sturdy academic practice, some of the authors even give gentle jabs to other papers in the book, noting flaws or the overlooking of some fine point. Most of the research draws from Donna Haraway's original research into cyborgs, but there are a few people that are trying to break away from her hegemonistic mold. For a very entertaining and much needed example of this, try to find the two or three digs at Donna Haraway's definition of cyborg.
This book is one of the most invaluable resources for anyone doing serious research into the idea of the cyborg. Though there is a great interview with Clynes, co-inventer of the term "cyborg," The Cyborg Handbook won't do for primary source material. The bibliography is wildly extensive, however, and the book functions as an excellent starting point for the researcher. For those who aren't afraid to work for it, but who have a more casual interest, this book can be both a starting and ending point.
Rating: 1
Summary: Cyborg Review
Comment: Whis book has been badly influenced by H. Figuroa's Caribbean Psychology percetion of the cyborg image.
Rating: 5
Summary: We Have Been Assimilated
Comment: Chris Hables Gray has created an exquisitely thought provoking cross disciplinary anthology exploring the evolution of cyborg and machine intelligence on the organism called Earth. The non-linear multi-dimensional threads of what is obviously a three dimensional and linear data source leads the reader to a deeper understanding of our organic technological and social crucible of biochemistry and machine.
I am using this book as a resource for a graduate course and will probably adopt it as a textbook in the future.
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Title: How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles, Katherine Hayles ISBN: 0226321460 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.20 |
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Title: Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age by Chris Hables Gray ISBN: 0415919797 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Cyborg: The Man-Machine by Marie O'Mahony ISBN: 0500283818 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader by Gill Kirkup, Linda Janes, Kathryn Woodward, Fiona Hovenden ISBN: 0415220912 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
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Title: Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna J. Haraway ISBN: 0415903874 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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