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New Media Futures:
The Challenge from Posthumanity
Keynote presentation for Our Sporting Future, annual conference of the Australian Sports Commission, Brisbane, March 2007
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The emerging technologies of new media are changing the way people work, enjoy leisure and communicate. This paper will explore the challenge raised from the convergence of technology platforms and scope the scene for what lies ahead for sports involvement. The paper identifies two crucial trends in development, the process towards ‘immersion’ (bringing audiences closer to the arena) and ‘abstraction’ (bringing athletes closer to simulated arenas) and discusses the collapse of bodies and technology as distinct categories, which raises prospects of the posthuman performer in competition. The discussion considers what tomorrow’s people will expect from the mediatisation of sports and explores some of the implications this has for the organisation of society and the role of technology within it. While dominant cultural narratives portray such futures as inhuman or dehuman, I argue that these transformations offer rich variation to contemporary life by appealing to imaginative ways of communication and embodiment.
Convergence on various levels
- data
- systems
- organic/artifice
- physical/virtual
- professional/non-professional
- expert/novice
- enhancement/therapy
- individual/collective
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art&design // bioethics // china // cyberculture // ethics // law // medicine // olympics // outer space // politics // public engagement with science // science // sport // technology
Miah, A. (2008) Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty, FACT & Liverpool University Press.
Miah, A. (2008) A Deep Blue Grasshopper: Playing Games with Artificial Intelligence. Hale, B. (Ed) Philosophy Looks at Chess. Open Court Press, 13-23.
Miah, A. (2008). Posthumanism: A Critical History. In Gordijn, B. & Chadwick, R. 'Medical Enhancements and Posthumanity. Springer.
Miah, A. (2008, Oct) 17 Days in Beiing, Centre for Olympic Studies, Barcelona.
Miah, A. (2008, Aug 3) Enhance Athletes: It's Only Natural, Washington Post.
Miah, A. (2008, July 31) Inside the Mind of a Marathon man, Nature, 454, 583-4.
Miah, A. (2008) Paralympics 2.0, Bioethics Forum, The Hastings Center.
Miah, A. (2008) Letter to Utopia: A Reply to Bostrom, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).
Miah, A. (2008) Engineering Greater Resilience or Radical Transhuman Enhancement, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).
Washington, DC, USA i (Dec, 2008)
Genetic enhancement conference, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
London, UK i (November, 2008)
Human Body Enhancement, panel debate, Words on Monday, Nature and Kings Place Music Foundatio.
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Miah, A. (2009) Justifying Human Enhancement: The Accumulation of Biocultural Capital. In: Wint, S. Ethical Futures. The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (RSA), London.
Miah, A. (2009) 'Blessed are the Forgetful': The Ethics of Memory Modification in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In Shapshay, S. (Ed) Bioethics Through Film, Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Stein, D.J. (2008) Philosophy of Psychopharmacology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p.118.
More, P. (2008) Enhancing Me: The Hope and the Hype of Human Enhancement. John Wiley & Sons, p.249.
Christian Lenk, Nils Hoppe & Roberto Andorno (2007) Ethics and Law of Intellectual Property: Current Problems in Politics, Science and Technology (Applied Legal Philosophy), Ashgate, p.84.
Zwart, N. H. (2007). "Genomics and self-knowledge: implications for societal research and debate." New Genetics and Society 26(2): 181-202.
Mitchell, C. B., E. D. Pellegrino, et al. (2007). Biotechnology and the Human Good. Washington, DC., Georgetown University Press.
Dec, 2008
BBC Radio 4,
Start the Week with Andrew Marr
Nov, 2008
The Scotsman (2-page profile)
Nov, 2008
The Independent on Sunday,
feature on Celebrity Culture
Oct, 2008
The Independent, Visionaries feature
Aug, 2008
ITN News,
The Telegraph,
Evening Standard,
Washington Post,
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Edinburgh, UK i (November, 2008)
Sport Law Conference, Edinburgh University Law School . |
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Liverpool, UK ia (15 Oct, 2008)
Book Preview: Human Futures, and BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival |
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Florence, Italy i (25 Oct, 2008)
Genetic Enhancement via Genetic Selection: Bioethical and Biolegal Boundaries, Gene Doping International Symposium. |
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London, UK i (14 Oct, 2008)
BioCentre 2008 series: "People Power for the Third Millennium: Technology, Democracy and Human Rights, Symposoium on "Arts and Technology: the role of the arts in democratic policy making". |
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Glasgow, Scotland i (30 Sept, 2008)
Our Cultural & Moral Commitment to Discover, Create, and Support New Life Forms, for LESS REMOTE: The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium, International Astronautical Congress, SEC, Glasgow, Scotland [abstract] |
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Oxford, Scotland i (29 Sept, 2008)
Workshop on Innovative Media for the Digital Economy, Oxford E-Research Centre, Oxford University |
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Beijing, China c (5 Aug, 2008)
Chair and Speaker for panel symposium on Emergent Journalistic Cultures at the Olympics [outline] |
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Olympia, Greece i (20 July, 2008)
Supervising Professor, International Olympic Acadmy 16th Postgraduate Seminar [Lecture Outlines]. |
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Leeds, UK c (16 July, 2008)
Ambush Media: Journalistic Freedom & Media Politics at the Beijing Olympics, Olympic Politics and Protest, Leeds Metropolitan University [abstract]. |
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