Posthumanism

Earlier this year, I purchased the domain space www.posthumanism.org.uk as the base for my postings about this subject area. Please alter yo...

The James Martin Institute launch event ' Tomorrow's People: the challenges of technologies for life extension and enhancement '...

The sony reader claims to be look just like paper and hopes to revitalise the digital book market. I use a palmpilot lifedrive and frequent...

How long will it be before we ditch the sports arena and compete as athletes - or view as spectators - within an entirely virtual reality? T...

I am a long-distance member for one of Yale's inter-disciplinary bioethics group, which soon receives a talk from Professor Deb Roy. Tak...

Before this becomes incredibly out of date, I must mention the post-/trans- humanism session that took place at the conference on Ethics and...

In November 2003, Stelarc came to Glasgow to showcase his new Prosthetic Head project at the New Territories festival. I spoke with him abo...

Call for Papers 2006 Northeastern Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention Philadelphia, PA, 2 - 5 March 2006 Following the Second Wor...

I tread very carefully when discussing the use of technology by people with disabilities. I am skeptical of progressive transhumanist argume...

Last friday, I participated in a symposium by this title. The co-presenters were Professor Wendy Hall and Professor Neil Burgess . It was ho...

Yet more on what might be described as posthuman art, conversations between science and art: GENES TALKING A HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH PROJECT O...

A great resource for the subject of ' Posthuman Art ' from ' Media Kunst Netz / Media Art Net ', deals with a range of ideas...

The Body Modification Mark II conference takes place this week in Australia. This meeting looks as if it will be around for a good few year...

I missed this one, but due to my budding, Scottish roots (do roots bud?), it seemed important to prevent it from slipping into the ether.......

In Nov 2003, I met Jennnifer Willet and Shaun Bailey at a conference in Glasgow School of ART. The Conference was called 'The State of t...

I have had a copy of the NPQ sitting in my 'to archive' folder for a while and got around to looking through it today. I then had a ...

is that you cannot simply infer from his case that we are becoming posthuman. I am very suspicious of those who will point to the use of rad...

An exhibition that brings together a range of my interests - posthuman, Olympic, body modification. Seems it was from the Sydney 2000 Olympi...

details of a seminar due to take place on Tuesday 12 April, 2005 4-6pm, Venue: TBA, South Building, Coleraine Campus, University of Ulster, ...

Superhumans, Mutants and Monsters: Gene Doping, Bioethics and the Posthuman Game University of Toronto, Canada, March 24, 2005. I just got b...

. Contents to the 2005 volume: CULTURE MACHINE 7 (2005) Biopolitics Edited by Melinda Cooper, Andrew Goffey and Anna Munster Editorial Bi...

CFPs... Biosemiotics: the new challenge 23 March 2005 Biosemiotics has been responsible for the acceleration of semiotics’ impetus in the la...

Call for papers... Hybrid Identities in Digital Media Vol 11, no 4, Winter 2005 Digital bodies, virtual characters, man-machine hybrids, sim...

Miah, A. (2004). "The Public Autopsy: Somewhere Between Art, Education and Entertainment." Journal of Medical Ethics 30: 576-579. ...

Jennifer Attaway's analysis of posthumanism in Philip K Dick's ' Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ' brings into question ...

Butryn, T. M. (2003). "Posthuman Podiums: Cyborg Narratives of Elite Track and Field Athletes." Sociology of Sport Journal 20: 17-...

Lewis, B. E. (2003). "Prozac and the Post-human Politics of Cyborgs." Journal of Medical Humanities 24(1/2): 49-63. Prozac has fea...

Kember, S. (2003). Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life. London and New York, Routledge. Kember's work marks a new relationship between the...

Aschwanden, C. (2000). Gene Cheats. New Scientist. 2221: 24-29. Christie Aschwanden's article on genetic enhancement for sport is the fi...

Maguire Jr, G. Q. and E. M. McGee (1999). "Implantable Brain Chips? Time for Debate." Hastings Center Report 29(1): 7-14. Maguire ...