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DECEMBER 1997

THE FUTURE OF SPORT: AN ACCESSIBLE TEXT: Monday 1 December, 1997.

DOES TECHNOLOGY MAKE COMPETITORS EQUAL OR UNEQUAL?: Monday 1 December, 1997.

IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE: Wednesday 3 December, 1997.

WHEN DID IT ALL START?:Thursday 4 December, 1997.

AN EASY TASK FOR THE TECHNO-THEORIST: Thursday 4 December, 1997.

IS ANYTHING ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN SPORT?: Thursday 4 December, 1997.

THE INEVITABLE RE-DESCRIPTION: Tuesday 9 December, 1997.

WHAT IS A CYBORG ANYWAY?: Tuesday 9 December, 1997.

SOURCES OF THE SELVES: Sunday 21 December, 1997.

THAT THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE TRUTH: Monday 22 December, 1997.

TRUE IDENTITIES: Tuesday 23 December, 1997.

CHOOSING FROM EQUAL ALTERNATIVES: Tuesday 23 December, 1997.

THE QUEST FOR EXCITEMENT: Tuesday 30 December, 1997.

BEYOND TECHNOLOGY: Wednesday 31 December, 1997.

NOVEMBER 1997

ABORTION: Monday 3 November, 1997.

THE EXTREME SPECTACLE: Wednesday 5 November, 1997.

SOMEONE HAS ALREADY SAID THAT (ENTRY 1): Saturday 8 November, 1997.

REFLECTION ON REFLECTION: Tuesday 11 November, 1997.

THE POSSIBILITY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
Tuesday 18 November, 1997.

CURRENT STATUS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
Wednesday 19 November, 1997.

THE PROBLEM WITH 'SIMULATION':
Wednesday 19 November, 1997.

TECHNOLOGISING SPORT TOWARDS THE EXTREME SPECTACLE: Friday, 21 November 1997.

WHY PERFORMANCE SPORT IS NIHILISTIC: Sunday, 23 November 1997.

OCTOBER 1997

CONTRACTING TIME AS A MEANS TO LIMITLESS LIFE: Monday 6 October, 1997.

NO TIME TO REFLECT: Tuesday 21 October, 1997.

SEPTEMBER 1997

THE NORMALISATION OF SPORT: Monday 8 September, 1997.

THE PURSUIT FOR OBJECTIVE SUCCESSES:
Wednesday 17 September, 1997.

TECHNOLOGY IN SPORT IV: ARTICLE NO 1.1: Sunday 29 September, 1997.

AUGUST 1997

PUBLICATION THOUGHTS: Friday 1 August, 1997.

THE FUTURE OF SPORT: AN INTRODUCTORY ARGUMENT:
Monday 4 August, 1997.

BEGINNING T RESEARCH: Tuesday 5 August, 1997.

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE: A RETURN TO FORMS: Tuesday 12 August, 1997.

THE GREAT PHILOSOPHER (OF A KIND):
Friday 15 August, 1997.

TRUST - WHO MUST YOU?: Friday 15 August, 1997.

A FUTURE FOR SPORT?: Wednesday 20 August, 1997.

A POKER FACE, BUT NO HAND: Friday 22 August, 1997.

JULY 1997

PHILOSOPHY AND ITS VALUES II: Wednesday 2 July, 1997.

DESCARTES' MIS-MISTRUST: Friday 4 July, 1997.

THE COMFORT SOCIETY: Wednesday 9 July, 1997.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SPORT: Thursday 17 July, 1997.

MACHINE DOMINATED SOCIETY?: Sunday 20 July, 1997.

OBJECTIVITY:

WHAT SHALL I READ?: Monday 21 July, 1997.

THE PURSUIT OF CONSISTANCY: Tuesday 22 July, 1997.

 

JUNE 1997

PHILOSOPHY AND ITS VALUE: Tuesday 17 June, 1997.

STANDARDISATION: Monday 23 June, 1997.

MAY 1997

HUMAN NATURE I: Tuesday 20 May, 1997.

ARISTOTLE ON HUMAN NATURE: Monday 26 May, 1997.

APRIL 1997

EVALUATION: Thursday 17 April, 1997.

ABORTION: Thursday 17 April, 1997.

MARCH 1997

EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY: Thursday 6 March, 1997.

FINAL LAP: Friday 7 March, 1997.

FEBRUARY 1997

TECHNOLOGY IN SPORT II: Saturday 8 February, 1997.

TECHNOLOGY IN SPORT III: Saturday 8 February, 1997.

POST-MODERN, NOT ARTIFICIAL: Sunday 9 February, 1997.

THE SCIENCE OF PHILOSOPHY: Sunday 9 February, 1997.

JANUARY 1997

SPORT PHILOSOPHY QUESTIONS: Wednesday 1 January, 1997.

AESTHETICS AND SPORT: Wednesday 1 January, 1997.

ETHICS AND OTHERS: Wednesday 1 January, 1997.

CONCLUSION: Thursday 2 January, 1997.

TECHNOLOGY IN SPORT I: Wednesday 8 January, 1997.

AUTONOMOUS EXISTENCE:Monday 20 January, 1997.
 

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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