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Watching
[Jeez, this page has not been updated for a long time. I might need to delete it. Oh well, here's a poor attempt at an update]
This
page offers some insight into cultural events that I have
found interesting or would recommend. I only list the good
stuff here. Entries are in reverse chronological order based
on when I saw them, most recent first.
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Film
Bamako
13
4
Onibaba
This is England
The Lives of Others
Into Great Silence
Babel
Intimate Strangers
Notes on a Scandal
The Queen
Rocky Balboa
Pan's Labarinth
Zidane
Children of Men
Lady Vengence
Punishment Park (1971)
Dig!
Stalker (1979) Tarkovsky
Mean Creek
Tarnation
The Downfall
Not Only, But Always
Hotel Rwanda
Dear Frankie
Turtles Can Fly
2046
Mar Adentro
Melinda y Melinda
Garden State
Mondo Vino
I Heart Huckabees
Peace One Day
The Corporation
Old Boy
Finding Neverland
Coffe and Cigarettes
The Holy Girl (London Film Fest)
Kontroll
Dead Man's Shoes
Hero
Supersize Me
My Architect
Japanese Story
Game Over
The Saddest Music in the World
Zatoichi
Touching the Void
Battle Royale
Dogville
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Etre et Avoir
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Lost in Translation
The Five Obstructions
Theatre
King Cotton, Empire, Liverpool
Tilt, Open Eye Gallary, Liverpool
Solo, (ann liv young) The Arches, Glasgow
The Vertical Hour, The Music Box, NYC
A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Old Vic, London
Blackbird, Ed Fest
Impromptus, Ed Fest
Death of a Salesman, Lyric, London
Le
Salon, Peeping Tom
Cul
de Sac, Da Da Kamera, Tron
Laurie Anderson, The End of the Moon, Tramway
When
will the september roses bloom?, Tramway
Pyrenees, Tron
The Knot Garden,
Festen, Lyric (London)
The Crying Body, Jan Fabre, Tramway
Standing Wave, Tron
Caged Heat, Arches
Butterfly, Tramway
Therese Raquin, Citizen's
Life is a Dream, STG
Blush, Wim Vandekeybus
It's an Earthquake in My Heart
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bloggers
Beatriz
Garcia /
Colin
Gavaghan /
Crooked Timber /
Eider
Suso /
Eszter
Hargittai /
Kris
Krug /
websites
Space
and Culture: The International Journal of Social Spaces
(Jul, 2005)
Prospect
(Jul, 2005)
Flow
(Jul, 2005)
Art
after Science - Random and Uncertainty (Jul, 2005)
Who
should you vote for (UK) (Apr, 2005)
answer some questions on policy to see which UK
party you suit.
Foucault
Studies (Dec, 2004)
New journal
Google
Scholar (Nov, 2004)
Search engine for academic literature
FameLab
(Nov, 2004)
Finding the next science communicators
Linked
In (Sept, 2004)
Smart networking tool.
Lecture
List (Sept, 2004)
Calendar of lectures in the UK
The
Nice Ones (Sept, 2004)
Montreal/NYC based band
Women's
Bioethics (Jun, 2004).
Glasgow:
Scotland with Style (Mar, 2004)
the new campaign for the UK's coolest city.
UK
Bioethics Portal (feb 2004)
online resource for literature in bioethics
Ultima
Vez (feb 2004)
website of the dance company. we saw 'blush' this week,
not to be missed.
bibliomania.com
(feb 2004)
A website with free texts, you might not find anywhere else.
Collaborative
Science and Arts Projects
The
Cremaster Cycle (jan 2004)
Movie-Art, big hit cult project from NYC.
Daniel
Lee (Dec 2003)
digital artist, morphing humans and anials, among others.
(One of his images is on my GMA book.)
Alicia
Garcia (Dec 2003)
Illustrator from Barcelona.
SciCult
(Dec 2003)
Website for artists representing issues of science and culture
through their work.
Body
Worlds (Nov 2002)
Homepage of Gunter von Hagens' 'masterpieces' (or grotesque
human violations).
Irene
Bartomeu
Designer in Barcelona. Cool clothes.
Film
a Minute
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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, July 31) Inside the mind of a Marathon man, Nature, 454, in press.
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).
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].
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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.
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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.
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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Brussels, Belgium i (May, 2008)
The ethical and philosophical aspects of enhancement medicine. |
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London, UK i (May, 2008)
New Media and the Olympics, Olympic legacy conference, University of Greenwich. |
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Liverpool, UK i (April, 2008)
The Future of the Mind,
FACT Human Futures. |
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Oxford, UK a (Mar, 2008)
Olympic Legacies, St Anthony's College, Oxford University. |
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London, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Royal College of Art, Lecture for Design Interactions, Emerging Cultures of Nanotechnology |
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London, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Royal College of Art, AHRC Seminar on Art & Design in Human Enhancement [brief]. |
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Liverpool, UK a (Feb, 2008)
SK-interfaces conference, FACT. |
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Liverpool, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Human Futures: What is the future of the body? Artists' seminar in advance of the SK-interfaces meet, @ FACT. |
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London, UK i (Jan, 2008)
London Metropolitan University, New Media @ the Olympics. |
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