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Core Text

Pramod Nayar (2004) Virtual Worlds (SAGE)

Additionally, this course relies on 3 kinds of text:

• scientific journalism
• T
heoretical readings on technology
• scientific essays

Becoming Posthuman MSTD4041
Year 4, core module for Media degree and option for degrees in Cinema and Screen Practice.

This course has existed since September 2003.

Course team:
Dr Andy Miah, Course Leader

Course Blog: Posthumanisms

     

Themes
Theorising Posthumanism
Posthuman Athletes
Posthuman Death
Posthuman Medicine
Posthuman Artists
Posthuman Politics
Posthuman Intelligence
Beyond Posthumanness

  Students will:
• Develop awareness about emerging technologies and how they are challenging the construction of ‘being human’ and how an emerging body of literature of posthumanism reflects this.
• Develop formal argumentation skills.
• Appreciate the importance of theorising the human in contemporary culture and the integral role of technology in this construction.
• Develop advanced reading skills, relying primarily on refereed journal publications and 3 kinds of reading: scientific, journalistic, theoretical
     
     

Background
This course addresses the way in which humanity is becoming re-constructed by technology and how this challenges ontological assumptions about the place of humans in the world. The module draws upon key themes in technology studies to re-question the value of being human and its importance in a mediated society. The central concept ‘posthumanness’ reflects an emerging discourse, which captures one of the key controversies of the 21st century – the legitimate ends of technological development. Students are introduced to ideas central to the posthuman, drawing upon work in cybernetics, biotechnology, and transhumanism.

The course is delivered through a series of arguments, which students are then asked to debate formally and respond, by taking a position and presenting it to peers who hold the alternative view.

 

“Humanists saw themselves as distinct beings, in an antagonistic relationship with their surroundings. Posthumans, on the other hand, regard their own being as embodied in an extended technological world”
The Posthuman Manifesto

“different representations of the ‘posthuman’… serve as refractions of normative and exemplary models of what it means to be human, far from neutral, but expressing deep value-judgements as to what is the ‘essence’ of humanity, and what should be the relationship between humans and their tools and technologies.”
Elizabeth Graham, 2002
Representations of the Post/Human

“I am not yet convinced that the concept of a cyborg is very interesting. As for the claim that we are “post-human,” this is neither explained nor defended”
DeGrazia, J Med Hum, 2003

"my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality"
Katherine Hayles, 1999
How We Became Posthuman

     

Bibliography
Please note, some of the information here is for students. If link is broken, you are advised to google your way to the reading.

Theory
Interview with Katherine Hayles - http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/borghayl.html
Abbas, N. (1999). "The Posthuman View on Virtual Bodies." CTHEORY Review 49 .
Ansell Pearson, K. (1997a). Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the transhuman condition. London, Routledge
Ansell Pearson, K. (1997b). "Life Becoming Body: On the 'Meaning' of Post Human Evolution." Cultural Values 1(2): 219-240.
Armitage, J. (2000, 15 November). " Beyond Postmodernism? Paul Virilio's Hypermodern Cultural Theory: Part 1." CTHEORY 23(3): Article 90(1) http://www.ctheory.net
Armitage, J. (2000, 15 November). " Beyond Postmodernism? Paul Virilio's Hypermodern Cultural Theory: Part 2." CTHEORY 23(3): Article 90(2) http://www.ctheory.net
Badmington, N., Ed. (2000). Posthumanism, Palgrave .
Badmington, N. (2001). "Pod Almighty! or, Humanism, posthumanism, and the strange case of Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Textual Practice 15(1): 5-22.
Barad, K. (2003). "Posthumanist Performativity: Towards an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28(3): 801-831
Berry, A. (1995). The Next 500 Years: Life in the coming millennium. London, Headline
Best, S. (2002) Robocop: The Crisis of Subjectivity. Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell17.htm
Bogard, W. (4 October, 2000). "Distraction And Digital Culture." CTHEORY: Digital Distraction http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=131
Boskovic, A. (1997). "Virtual Places: Imagined Boundaries and Hyperreality in Southeastern Europe." CTHEORY: http://www.ctheory.com/a54.html
Bostrom, N. (199?). The Fermi Paradox http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~transhumanism/Fermi.htm
Bostrom, N. (1998). What is Transhumanism? http://www.nickbostrom.com/old/transhumanism.html
Bostrom, N. (2003) In Defence of Posthuman Dignity, Bioethics [ASK ANDY]
Braman, S. (2002). "Posthuman Law: Information Policy and the Machinic World." First Monday 7(12): http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_12/braman/index.html
Broadhurst Dixon, J. and E. J. Cassidy (1998). Virtual Futures: Cyberotics, Technology and Post-Human Pragmatism. London and New York, Routledge.
Everard, J. (2000). Virtual States: The Internet and the Boundaries of the Nation-State. London, Routledge.
Fitzpatrick, T. (1999). "Social Policy for Cyborgs." Body and Society 5(1): 93-116
Gray, C. H., Ed. (1995). The Cyborg Handbook. London, Routledge .
Gray, C. H., S. Mentor, et al. (1995). Cyborgology: Constructing the Knowledge of Cybernetic Organisms. The Cyborg Handbook. C. H. Gray. London, Routledge (ONE COPY, AYR)
Guernsey, L. (2002). At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged. The New York Times. New York http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/14/technology/circuits/14MANN.html
Halberstam, J. and I. Irvingston, Eds. (1995). Posthuman Bodies. Bloomington, Indiana University Press .
Lenoir, T. (2002). "Makeover: Writing the Body into the Posthuman Technoscape: Part Two: Corporeal Axiomatics." Configurations 10: 373-385.
Poster, M. (2002). "The Aesthetics of Distracting Media." Culture Machine 4.0 http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Articles/poster.htm
Polsky, A. D. (2001). "Skins, Patches, and Plug-ins: Becoming Woman in the New Gaming Culture." Genders 34. http://www.genders.org/g34/g34_polsky.html

Prophet, J. (1999). Imag(in)ing the Cyborg. Desire by Design: Body, Territories, and New Technologies. Cutting Edge: The Women's Research Group. London, I.B. Tauris: 51-59 .
Rahimi, S. (2000). "Identities without a Reference: Towards a Theory of Posthuman Identity." M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 3(3) http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0006/identity.php
Spinks, L. (2001). "Thinking the post-human: literature, affect and the politics of style." Textual Practice 15(1): 23-46.
Stryker, S. (2000). Transexuality: The postmodern body and/as technology. The Cybercultures Reader. D. Bell and B. M. Kennedy. London, Routledge: 588-597
Tenner, E. (1996). Why Things Bite Back: Predicting the problems of progress. London, Fourth Estate .
Turner, B. S. (1996). The Body & Society (Second Edition). London, SAGE.
Zipin, L. (2004). "Post-humanism and the problem of theorizing coherence." Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 18(2): 219-234.

Medicine
Annas, G. J. (1994) 'Our Most Important Product', in R. H. Blank and A. L. Bonnickson. Medicine Unbound: The Human Body & the Limits of Medical Intervention. New York, Columbia University Press [PROVIDED IN WEEK 4 LECTURE]
Baudrillard, J. (1995) 'Plastic Surgery for the Other', CTHEORY, November 22, A53 http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=75
Benn, P., (2001) The sex selection question, Spiked-Online. London. 2001: http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000002D2D1.htm
DeGrazia, D. (2003). "A Reply to Bradley Lewis's 'Prozac and the Post-human Politics of Cyborgs'." Journal of Medical Humanities 24(1/2): 65-71
Gardner, P. (2003). "Distorted Packaging: Marketing Depression as Illness, Drugs as Cure." Journal of Medical Humanities 24(1/2): 105-130.
Kember, S. (1999). NITs and NRTs: Medical Science and the Frankenstein Factor. Desire by Design: Body, Territories, and New Technologies. Cutting Edge: The Women's Research Group. London, I.B. Tauris: 29-49 .
Kroker, A. and M. Kroker. (2001, May 9) 'Tech Flesh 1: Resequencing the Human Genome Project', CTHEORY. http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=5
Lewis, B. E. (2003). "Prozac and the Post-human Politics of Cyborgs." Journal of Medical Humanities 24(1/2): 49-63 .
Mamo, L. and J. R. Fishman (2001). "Potency in All the Right Places: Viagra as a Technology of the Gendered Body." Body and Society 7(4): 13-35.
Metzl, J. D. (2003). "Selling sanity through gender: the psychodynamics of psychotropic advertising." Journal of Medical Humanities 24(1/2): 79-103
Miah, A. (2003) 'Dead Bodies for the Masses: The British Public Autopsy & the Aftermath,' CTHEORY, E119: http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=363
Moynihan, R. (2003) 'The making of a disease: female sexual dysfunction', British Medical Journal, 326: 45-47. http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/45?etoc
Moynihan, R., I. Heath, et al. (2002). "Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease." British Medical Journal 324: 886- 891.
Nataf, Z. I. (1997). Skin-flicks. The Eight Technologies of Otherness. S. Golding. London & New York, Routledge: 172-189.
Thacker, E. (2002). "Bio-X: Removing Bodily Contingency in Regenerative Medicine." Journal of Medical Humanities 23(3/4): 239-253
Thacker, E. (2000). "Redefining Bioinformatics: A Critical Analysis of Technoscientific Bodies." Enculturation 3(1): http://enculturation.gmu.edu/3_1/thacker.html .
Thacker, E. (2002). "State Biophilosophy: Or, Why are State bureaucrats conducting the 'public' debate on biotechnology?" Metamute 3(1): http://www.metamute.com
van Dijck, J. (2002). "Medical documentary: conjoined twins as a mediated spectacle." Media, Culture, and society 24(4): 537-556 .
Waldby, C. (2000). The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine. London and New York, Routledge.
Wilmut, I. (1999) 'Copying People', Prometheus, 2, 2. http://www.prometheus.demon.co.uk/02/02wilmut.htm [NB: Ian Wilmut was lead scientist on the project which led to the birth of Dolly the sheep]
Wright, A. (1999). Partial Bodies: Re-establishing boundaries, medical and virtual. Desire by Design: Body, Territories, and New Technologies. Cutting Edge: The Women's Research Group. London, I.B. Tauris: 21-27.

Art
Ackerman, M. J. (1998). "The Visible Human Project." Proceedings of the IEEE 86(3): 504-511.
Atzori, P. and K. Woolford (1996, September 6). "Extended-Body: Interview with Stelarc." CTHEORY http://www.ctheory.net .
Bitsori, M. and E. Galanakis (2002). "Doctors versus artists: Gustav Klimt's Medicine." British Medical Journal 325: 1506-1508.
Blocker, J. (2003). "This being you must create: transgenic art and witnessing the invisible." Cultural Studies 17(2): 193-210 .
Dijck, J. v. (2000) 'Digital Cadavers: The Visible Human Project as Anatomical Theater', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 31, 2: 271-285 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1369-8486(99)00020-5
Fisher, J. A. (2002). "Tattooing the Body, Marking Culture." Body & Society 8(4): 91-107.
Mules, W. (2000) 'Virtual Culture, Time and Images: Beyond Representation', M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 3.2. http://www.media-culture.org.au/0005/images.txt
Munster, A. (2001, March 13). "Digitally Approximate Aesthetics." CTHEORY. http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=290
Radley, A. (1999). "The aesthetics of illness: Narrative, horror, and the sublime." Sociology of Health and Illness 21(6): 779-795
Springer, C. (1996). Electronic Eros: Bodies & Desire in the Postindustrial Age. London, The Athlone Press.
Stelarc. (1997) 'Hollow Body/Host Space: Stomach Sculpture', Cultural Values, 1, 2: 250-251.
Thacker, E. (1998, June 2). ".../visible_human.html/digital anatomy and the hyper-texted body." CTHEORY, http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=103
Virilio, P. (2000) The Information Bomb, London: Verso
Welch, K. (2002) 'Book Review: Life, Death and Love in the Hum of Medical Technology: The Resurrection Machine, by Steve Gehrke. Kansas City, MO: University of Missouri-Kansas City Bookmark Press, 2000.' Journal of Medical Humanities, 23, 3/4: 272-274.
Zurbrugg, N. (1999). "Virilio, Stelarc and 'Terminal' Technoculture." Theory, Culture and Society 16(5): 177-199 .
Muri, A. (2003). "Of Shit and the Soul: Tropes of Cybernetic Disembodiment in Contemporary Culture." Body and Society 9(3): 73-92.
Nirre, R. (2001). "Spatial Discursions Flames Of The Digital And Ashes Of The Real." CTHEORY 13 February http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=134
Waldby, C. (2000). "Virtual Anatomy: From the Body in the Text to the Body on the Screen." Journal of Medical Humanities 21(2): 85-107.
Rutsky, R. L. (1999). High Techne: Art and Technology from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.
Zylinska, J. (2002). The Cyborg Experiments. London, Continuum.

Intelligence
Barzel, A. (1998). "The Perplexing Conclusion: The Essential Difference between Natural and Artificial Intelligence is Human Beings' Ability to Deceive." Journal of Applied Philosophy 15(2): 165-178
Bloomfield, B. P. and T. Vurdubakis (2003). "Imitation games: Turing, Menard, Van Meegeren." Ethics and Information Technology 5: 27-38 .
Brighton, H. and Selina, H. (2003) Introducing Artificial Intelligence. Icon Books, Cambridge .
Copeland, B. J. (2002). "The Turing Test." Minds and Machines 10(4): 519-539.
Crosby (1999). "Reflections on The Matrix." Film Philosophy 3(31): http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol3-1999/n31crosby
Cubitt, S. (2000). "Review: The Virtual Disembodied: A crisis in post-humanism." International Journal of Cultural Studies 3(1): 123-30.
Dixon, S. (2003) 'Metal Gender', CTHEORY, 26, 1-2: A129 http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=384
Elton, M. (1997). "Robots and Rights: The ethical demands of artificial agents." Ends & Means: Journal of the University of Aberdeen Centre for Philosophy, Technology, and Society 1(1) Online. Available HTTP: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cpts/cpts/as3.hti.
Hayles, N. K. (1997). "The Posthuman Body: Inscription and Incoropration n Galatea 2.2 and Snow Crash." Configurations 5(2): 241-266 .
Hayles, N. K. (1999). How we became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. London, University of Chicago Press
Hayles, N.K. (2000) Prologue to ‘How we became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, University of Chicago Press, Chicago’. Available online at: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/321460.html
Hawisher, G. E. (2000). "Accessing the Virtual Worlds of Cyberspace." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 6(1): http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/hawisher.html
Johnston, J. (2002). "A Future for Autonomous Agents: Machinic Merkwelten and Artificial Evolution." Configurations 10: 473-516.
Keep, C. J. (1993). "Knockin on Heaven's Door: Leibniz, Baudrillard and Virtual Reality." EJournal 3(2) http://rachel.albany.edu/~ejournal/v3n2/article.html
Kelly, K. and S. Talbott (2002). "Are Machines Living Things?" NetFuture: Technology & Human Responsibility #133. http://www.netfuture.org/2002/Jun2502_133.html#2
Kember, S. (2003). Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life. London and New York, Routledge.
Klein, H. G. (2000) 'The Dream of the Mechanical Brain: The Rise and Fall of AI', Enculturation, 3, 1: http://enculturation.gmu.edu/3_1/klein.html.
Kritt, D. W. (2000). "Loving a Virtual Pet: Step Towards the Technological Erosion of Emotion." Journal of American and Comparative Cultures: 81-87.
McGee, E. M. a. M., G.Q. jr (1998). Ethical Assessment of Implantable Brain Chips. 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston. http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Bioe/BioeMcGe.htm
Moravec, H. (1997). When will computer hardware match the human brain? Journal of Transhumanism. 1. http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm .
Parisi, L. and T. Terranova (2000, May 10). "Heat-Death: Emergence and Control in Genetic Engineering and Artificial Life." CTHEORY. http://www.ctheory.com/article/a84.html
Pepperell, R. (2001). The Posthuman Condition: Consciousness Beyond the Brain, 3rd Edition. Bristol, Intellect Books .
Perri 6 (2001). "Ethics, Regulation and the New Artificial Intelligence, Part 1: Accountability and Power." Information, Communication and Society 4(2): 199-229.
Searle, J. R. (1990). 'Minds, Brains, and Programs', Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 3, 3: 417-458. http://members.aol.com/NeoNoetics/MindsBrainsPrograms.html
Thrift, N. (2004). "Electric Animals: New models of everyday life?" Cultural Studies 18(2/3): 461-482 .
Turing, A. (1950) 'Computing Machinery and Intelligence', Mind: A Quarterly Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, LIX, 236, October. http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm

Politics
Bayard, C. and G. Knight. (1995, March 8) 'Vivisecting the 90s An Interview with Jean Baudrillard', CTHEORY. http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=66
Biocca, F. (1997). "The Cyborg's Dilemma: Progressive Embodiment in Virtual Environments." Journal of Computer Mediated Communications 3(2): http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue2/biocca2.html
CTHEORY. (2001, Oct 18) 'CTHEORY Interview With Paul Virilio: The Kosovo War Took Place In Orbital Space - Paulo Virilio in Conversation with John Armitage Translated by Patrice Riemens', CTHEORY. http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=132
Feenberg, A. (2001). "Democratizing Technology: Interests, Codes, Rights." Journal of Ethics 5: 177-195 .
Graham, E. (2003) The Politics of the Post/Human, presented 3 September 2003 at Yale University, Technology and Ethics Working Research Group, Yale Interdisciplinary Bioethics Program
Gray, C. H. (1997). "The Ethics and Politics of Cyborg Embodiment: Citizenship as a Hypervalue." Cultural Values 1(2): 252-258 .
Gray, C. H. (2002). Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age. London, Routledge.
Gray, C. H. (2003). "Posthuman Soldiers in Postmodern War." Body and Society 9(4): 215-226 .
Haraway, D. (2000). "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist-Femnism in the late Twentieth Century." In Bell, D. and Kennedy, B. (2000) The Cybercultures Reader, London, Routledge, Chapter 18, pp.291-324.
Herzogenrath, B. (2000) 'The Question Concerning Humanity: Obsolete Bodies and (Post)Digital Flesh', Enculturation, 3, 1: http://enculturation.gmu.edu/3_1/herzogenrath/index.html.
Higgins, R., E. Rushalja, et al. (1999). Technowhores. Desire by Design: Body, Territories, and New Technologies. Cutting Edge: The Women's Research Group. London, I.B. Tauris .
Kellner, D., Virilio, War, and Technology: Some Critical Reflections, Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website. 2002. http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell29.htm
Mudede, C. T. (1998, October 21). "From Robodad to Biobitch." CTHEORY. http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=201
Robertson, J. (2001). "Japan's First Cyborg? Miss Nippon, Eugenics and Wartime Technologies of Beauty, Body and Blood." Body and Society 7(1).Cyber
Bennett, C. J. (2001). "Cookies, web bugs, webcams and cue cats: patterns of surveillance on the world wide web." Ethics and Information Technology 3: 197-210 .
Graham, E. (1999) Cyborgs or Goddesses? Becoming divine in a cyberfeminist age, Information, Communication and Society, 2(4), 419-438.
Heim, M. (1993). The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace. The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality. New York, Oxford University: 82-108
Kitchin, R. (1998). Cyberspace: The World in Wires. Chichester, John Wiley & Sons .
Loader, D., Ed. (1997). The Governance of Cyberspace: Politics, Technology & Global Restructuring. London, Routledge .
Pfohl, S. (1997, January 30). "The Cybernetic Delirium of Norbert Wiener." CTHEORY http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=86
Terranova, T. (2000). Post-Human Unbounded: Artificial Evolution and High-tech subcultures. The Cyberculture Reader. D. Bell and B. M. Kennedy. London and New York, Routledge: 268-279.
van Zoonen, L. (2002). "Gendering the Internet: Claims, controversies and cultures." European Journal of Communication 17(1): 5-23 .
Virilio, P. (1995) 'Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm!' CTHEORY, Article 30: www.ctheory.net/text_file?pick=72.
Zdenek, S. (1999). "Rising up from the MUD: inscribing gender in software design." Discourse and society 10(3): 379-409 .


Athletes
Blake, A. (1996). The Body Language: The Meaning of Modern Sport. London, Lawrence and Wishart
Butryn, T. (2002). "Cyborg Horizons: Sport and the Ethics of Self-Technologization." In Miah, A. & Eassom, S.B. (2002) Sport Technology: History, Philosophy and Policy, Elsevier Science, Oxford, pp.113-133.
Butryn, T. (2003) Posthuman Podiums… [E-JOURNALS: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9326669&db=slh] .
Cole, C. (1994). "Book Review: Hybrid Athletes, Monstrous Addicts and Cyborg Natures." Journal of Sport History 21(2): 228-239.
Entine, J. (2002). The coming of the über-athlete: The genetic revolution will mean the end of sports as we know it -- and that may not be a bad thing. http://www.salon.com
Farrey, T. (2000). Morphing the human body, ESPN. 2000.
http://espn.go.com/otl/athlete/intro.html
Le Breton, D. (2000). "Playing Symbolically with Death in Extreme Sports." Body and Society 6(1): 1-11.
Lewis, N. (2000). "The Climbing Body, Nature and the Experience of Modernity." Body and Society 6(3-4): 58-80
Marshall, P. D. (2000). "Editorial:'Game'." M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 3(5): http://www.media-culture.org.au/0010/edit.html .
Miah, A. (2002). Gene-Doping: Sport, Values & Bioethics. The Ethics of Human Genetics. J. Glasa. Strasburg, Council of Europe: 171-180
Miah, A. (2002). Immersion and Abstraction in Virtual Sport. Sport Technology: History, Philosophy & Policy. A. Miah and S. B. Eassom. Oxford, Elsevier. 21: 225-233 .
Miah, A. (2003). "Be Very Afraid: Cyborg Athletes, Transhuman Ideals, and Posthumanity." Journal of Evolution and Technology, 13(2): http://www.jetpress.org/volume13/miah.html .
Miah (2004) Genetically Modified Athletes: Biomedical Ethics, Gene Doping and Sport. London and New York: Routledge .
Miah, A. & Eassom, S.B. (2002) Sport Technology: History, Philosophy and Policy, Elsevier Science, Oxford .
Randerson, J., (2001, Nov 30) Scientists raise spectre of gene-modified athletes, New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991627
Wachter.A. M (2004) ‘Ethical Aspects of Cryobiology: Responsible applications in biomedicine and clinical paractice’, Cyrobiology, vol. 48 pp. 205 – 213

Death
Bova, B. (1998). Immortality: How Science is Extending Your Life and Changing the World. New York, Avon Books.
Brahams, D. (1987). "Cryostorage, Regeneration and the Law." New Law Journal 137(6333):1117 .
Brecher, B. (2002). "Our Obligation to the Dead." Journal of Applied Philosophy 19(2): 109-119 .
Corlett, J. A. (2001). "Is there a moral duty to die?" Health Care Analysis 9: 41-63 .
Cetron, M. & Davies, O. (1998) CHEATING DEATH: the Promise and the Future Impact of Trying to Live Forever, St. Martin's Press 1998
Charme, W.M. Du (1996) Becoming Immortal: Nanotechnology, You, and the Demise of Death Blue Creek Vent
Fahy, G. M. (1996). The Institute for Neural Cryobiology: Organ Cryopreservation. Nanothinc. http://www.21cm.com/articles/organ_cryopreservation.html
Fischer (1997). "Death, Badness and the Impossibility of Experience." Journal of Ethics 1: 341-353 .
Glannon, W. (2002). "Identity, Prudential Concern and Extended Lives." Bioethics 16(3): 266-283.
Haigh, R. and M. Bagaric (2002). "Immortality and Sentencing Law." Philosophy, Science & Law 2(May): http://www.psljournal.com/archives/papers/immortaility.cfm
Harris, J. (2000). "Intimations of Immortality." Science 288(5463): 59
Hughes, J. J. (2001). "The future of death: Cryonics and the telos of liberal individualism." Journal of Evolution and Technology 6: http://www.jetpress.org/volume6/death.htm
Lamb, D. (1978). "Diagnosing Death." Philosophy and Public Affairs 7(2): 144-153.
Lombardo, P. A. (1997). "Eugenics at the Movies (review essay)." Hastings Center Report 27(2): 43.
Lock, M. (2001). "The Alienation of Body Tissue and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines." Body and Society 7(2): 63-91.
Lock, M. (2002). "Inventing a New Death and Making it." Anthropology and Medicine 9(2): 97-115.
Machado, C. (203). "A definition of human death should not be related to organ transplants." Journal of Medical Ethics 29: 201-202.
Mann, P. S. (1998). Meanings of Death. 20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, USA. Available: http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Bioe/BioeMann.htm
National Institute on Aging, (2002) Life Extension: Science Fact or Science Fiction? Gaithersburg, National Institute of Health: http://www.nia.nih.gov/health/agepages/lifeext.htm
Persson, I. (2002). "Human Death - A view from the beginning of life." Bioethics 16(1): 20-32.
Regis, E. (1990). Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge. London, Penguin.
Smith, G. P. I. (1983). Medical-Legal Aspects of Cryonics: Prospects for Immortality. Port Washington, Associated Faculty Press
Tännsjö, T. (1999). "Practical Viewpoint: Two concepts of death reconciled." Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 2(41-46).
Zamperetti, N., R. Bellomo, et al. (2003). "Defining death in non-heart beating organ donors." Journal of Medical Ethics 29(1): 182-185.

     
 

resarch interests

art&design // bioethics // china // cyberculture // ethics // law // medicine // olympics // outer space // politics // public engagement with science // science // sport // technology

just published

Miah, A. (2008, Aug 3) A Posthuman Olympics, Washington Post, in press.

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).

my next event

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]

Beijing, China c (Aug, 2008)
Chair and Speaker for panel symposium on Emergent Journalistic Cultures at the Olympics, International Symposium on Olympic Research, Beijing National University and University of Western Ontario [outline].

Olympia, Greece i (July, 2008)
Supervising Professor, International Olympic Academy 16th Postgraduate Seminar [Lecture Outlines].

in press

Miah, A. (2008) 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. (2008) Playing Games with Artificial Intelligence. Hale, B. (Ed) Philosophy Looks at Chess . Open Court Press.

Miah, A. (2008). Posthumanism: A Critical History. In Gordijn, B. & Chadwick, R. 'Medical Enhancements and Posthumanity. Springer.

Miah, A. (2008) '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.

 

just published

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.

Peters, H. P., J. T. Lang, et al. (2007). "Culture and Technological Innovation: Impact of Institutional Trust and Appreciation of Nature on Attitudes towards Food Biotechnology in the USA and Germany." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 19(2): 191-220.

House of Commons Select Committee, Science And Technology (2007) Report on Human Enhancement Technologies in Sport.

Koolstra CM, Bos MJW, Vermeulen IE. Through which medium should science information professionals communicate with the public: television or the internet? Journal of Science Communication 2006;5(3):1-8.

   

interviews

May, 2008
The technological enhancement of man, Danish Broadcasting Corporation

April, 2008
Evening Standard
Beijing 2008 Olympics and Protest

March, 2008
The Sports Factor, ABC Radio, Blogging at the Beijing Olympics

Feb, 2008
ESPN Magazine

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recent places
         
Beijing, China c (5 Aug, 2008)
Chair and Speaker for panel symposium on Emergent Journalistic Cultures at the Olympics [outline]
  Olympia, Greece i (20 July, 2008)
Supervising Professor, International Olympic Acadmy 16th Postgraduate Seminar [Lecture Outlines].
  Leeds, UK c (16 July, 2008)
Ambush Media: Journalistic Freedom & Media Politics at the Beijing Olympics, Olympic Politics and Protest, Leeds Metropolitan University [abstract].
         
London, UK ia (4 July, 2008)
Research Cluster on Innovative Media for a Digital Economy: Health Industries Workshop, British Medical Association House.
  Liverpool, UK i (July, 2008)
Keynote, Body & Economy, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, FACT.
  Chicago , USA ia (Jun, 2008)
2016 Olympic Bid conference, the contribution of the arts.
         
San Francisco , USA i (Jun, 2008)
Bioethics and Doping colloquium, St Mary's College.
  London, UK c (Jun, 2008)
with Ana Adi, Framing Beijing's Olympic Bid: Human Rights Advocacy Groups and Online Mainstream International Media, Changes and Challenges: China’s Media, University of Westminster, London, [abstract]
  Oxford, UK i (May, 2008)
Guest Seminar, St James Martin Institute for the 21st Century, Programme on Biomedical Ethics and Future of Humanity Institute
 
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