Body, Technology and Society: a Dance of Encounters

Body, Technology and Society: a Dance of Encounters

In the special section ‘Body Hacking: Self-Made Cyborgs and Visions of Transhuman Corporeality’, attention is drawn to cyborgism, a set of cultural and very personal practices of experimentation with the human body that often take place outside the confines of institutionalised technoscience. Known,...

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Published in:Nanoethics 2014-12, Vol.8 (3), p.259-261
Main Authors: Duarte, Bárbara Nascimento, Park, Enno
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Bioethics
Biotechnology
Culture
Cybernetics
Dance
Disability
Education
Ethics
Experiments
Human body
Institutionalization
Introduction
Medical research
Nanotechnology
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Technology
Posthumanism
Society
Studies
Technology
Transhumanism
Transplants & implants
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Summary:In the special section ‘Body Hacking: Self-Made Cyborgs and Visions of Transhuman Corporeality’, attention is drawn to cyborgism, a set of cultural and very personal practices of experimentation with the human body that often take place outside the confines of institutionalised technoscience. Known, for example, as ‘body hackers’, ‘grinders’ or ‘self-made cyborgs’ and engaging in unusual forms of body modification, the practitioners are enthusiasts who do not necessarily have any ‘disability’ in the conventional sense of the term. They consider the body a highly malleable material, a transformable, improvable, augmentable entity. The collection of papers in this special section encompasses first-hand accounts of cyborg practices as well as intellectual reflections on their implications.
ISSN:1871-4757
1871-4765