Binding: Paperback
Description: A concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated political and embodied. This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzing the claims around emerging technologies like automation robots and AI. Cyborg analyzes and reframes popular and scholarly conversations about cyborgs from the perspective of feminist cyborg theory. Drawing on their combined decades of training teaching and research in the social sciences design and engineering education Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau introduce an approach called critical cyborg literacy. Critical cyborg literacy foregrounds power dynamics and pays attention to the ways that social and cultural factors such as gender race and disability shape how technology is imagined developed used and resisted. Forlano and Glabau offer critical cyborg literacy as a way of thinking through questions about the relationship between humanity and technology in areas such as engineering and computing art and design and health care and medicine as well as the social sciences and humanities. Cyborg examines whether modern technologies make us all cyborgs if we consider for instance the fact that we use daily technologies at work have technologies embedded into our bodies in health care applications or use technology to critically explore possibilities as artists designers activists and creators. Lastly Cyborg offers perspectives from critical race feminist and disability thinkers to help chart a path forward for cyborg theory in the twenty - first century.
Title: Cyborg
Author(s): Glabau Danya
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Barcode: 9780262547550
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 2/6/2024
Category: Technology: General Issues