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DECEMBER 1998

THE THOUGHT POLICE: Wednesday 2 December, 1998.

HOW IT ALL TURNS OUT: Wednesday 9 December, 1998.

HUMAN RIGHTS: THE TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGE OF SPORT: Monday 14 December, 1998.

SPORT, CRYONICS, AND IMMORTALITY: Tuesday 15 December, 1998.

VIRTUAL REALITY: DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE: Tuesday 15 December, 1998.

COMMUNICATING IDEAS: Wednesday 16 December, 1998.

404 NOT FOUND: Thursday 17 December, 1998.

WHICH PHILOSOPHY?: Thursday 17 December, 1998.

NOVEMBER 1998

IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?: Friday 20 November, 1998.

MOSQUITO COAST AND CRYONICS: Monday 23 November, 1998.

OCTOBER 1998

THE FEEL OF A BOOK: Sunday 4 October, 1998.

HE REALLY BELIEVED HE WAS BLESSED:
Sunday 4 October, 1998.

SOMETING LACKING: Sunday 18 October, 1998.

THE FAMILIAR STRANGER: Wednesday 21 October, 1998.

THE 'SUPERMAN' PARADOX: Saturday, 24 October, 1998.

CREATIVITY:

HTTP: Tuesday 27 October, 1998.

SEPTEMBER 1998

DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT PRINCESS DI?:
Wednesday 2 September, 1998.

BEING AND TECHNOLOGY: Thursday 3 September, 1998.

HOW MUCH IS ONE LIFE WORTH?: Friday 4 September, 1998.

AUTOMATA VS CYBORGS: Wednesday 9 September, 1998.

WHY WOULD CYBORGS BE PREFERENTIAL TO AUTOMATONS?:
Wednesday 9 September, 1998.

WHAT DOES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MEAN FOR THE PROSPERITY OF AUTOMATONS?: Wednesday 9 September, 1998.

VIOLENT EXTREMES:Monday 14 September, 1998.

HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH?: Saturday 19 September, 1998.

I HAD A DREAM: Sunday 27 September, 1998.

WRITING, WRITING, WRITING: Sunday 27 September, 1998.

AUGUST 1998

PROCESSED LIFE: Sunday 2 August, 1998.

THE IMAGE: IS IT CLEAR ENOUGH?: Thursday 13 August, 1998.

TOUR DE FRANCE: Tuesday 18 August, 1998.

SENSATIONALISING THE ENHANCEMENT:
Sunday 23 August, 1998.

NOTHING COMPARES: Sunday 23 August, 1998.

HOW MANY TIMES CAN THEY HURT ME?:
Monday 24 August, 1998.

JULY 1998

A QUESTION OF LOCATION: Sunday 12 July, 1998.

THE REALITY OF U.S:

EXTREME EXPERIENCES:

BECOMING:Tuesday 21 July, 1998.

DELEUZE & MEMORY:

"WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?":

THESIS REVISITED:

NOT OUT TONITE:

THE RIDE: Friday 31 July, 1998.

JUNE 1998

REALITY AND EPI: Monday 8 June, 1998.

ANOTHER GOOD IDEA: Tuesday 9 June, 1998.

MANUFACTURING MY WORK: Wednesday 17 June, 1998.

CREATIVE WRITING: Sunday 21 June, 1998.

MAY 1998

REEVALUATING SPORT: CHESS RULES!: Tuesday 5 May, 1998.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Tuesday 26 May, 1998.

INTRODUCTION TO PAPER 1:

APRIL 1998

MECHANICAL EVOLUTION: Friday 3 April, 1998.

THE TREADMILL:

UNCERTAIN: Wednesday 8 April, 1998.

MARCH 1998

DIRECTION: Sunday 8 March, 1998.

KINDS OF TECHNOLOGY: Monday 9 March, 1998.

PARENTAL SERVICE:Tuesday 10 March, 1998.

THE RANDOMNESS OF TEXT: Monday 16 March, 1998.

AN AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCE?: Monday 23 March, 1998.

MEDALS AND MORONS:

THE MONEY:

DARWIN, GREATNESS, AND THE NEED FOR BACKGROUND:
Saturday 28 March. 1998.

FEBRUARY 1998

THE SPORT OF CHESS: Tuesday 2 February, 1998

THE PAST: Sunday 8 February, 1998.

CIRCLE OF KNOWLEDGE: Friday 13 February, 1998.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD:

FEMINISM - WHAT LITTLE I KNOW:

THE EXPERIMENT: Monday 16 February, 1998.

PROPORTIONAL BEAUTY:

ALWAYS CHANGING:

THE SUCCESS OF DECEITFUL SPORTS: Wednesday 18 February, 1998.

MECHANICAL BOREDOM:

NECESSARILY HUMAN SPORT: Friday, 20 February, 1998.

JANUARY 1998

EMOTION: Thursday 1 January, 1998.

PROPOSAL THOUGHTS: Thursday 1 January, 1998.

TIME MAXIMISATION IN LEISURE: Friday 2 January, 1998.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN ERROR IN SPORT: Friday 2 January, 1998.

RACE: Sunday 4 January, 1998.

PLANNING A THESIS:Thursday 6 January, 1998.

PC DEPENDENT:

RE-STRUCTURING SPORT: Tuesday 27 January, 1998.

ENDURING CORRUPTION IN SPORT:

THE FRAGMENTED OVERMAN:

THE CYBERSPACE AGE OR STILL PRIMITIVE MAN?:
Thursday 29 January, 1998.

ATHLETE, OVERMAN, PRISONER:

THE USE AND ABUSE OF "VR":
 

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

flashback

 

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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