Table of Contents
Edited by Andy MIAH
0.1
Foreword
Sir Drummond BONE
0.2
Life in the 21st Century:
Practice-based Research & the Application of Art
Mike STUBBS & Laura SILLARS
0.3
Introduction
Andy MIAH
VISIONS
1.1
Steve FULLER
The Future is Divine: A History of Human God-Playing
1.2
Jennifer WILLET
BIOplay: Bacteria Cultures
1.3
Russell BLACKFORD
Embracing the Unknown Future: In Defence of New Technology
1.4
Ruud ter MEULEN
Will Human Enhancement Make Us Better?
Ethical reflections on the enhancement of human capacities by means of biomedical technologies
1.5
Richard A.L. JONES
Our Faith in Technology
1.6
Anthony DUNNE, Fiona RABY & Andy MIAH
Evidence Dolls: Detecting Undesirable Genes
CONTESTED BODIES
2.1
Sandra KEMP
Shaping the Human: The New Aesthetic
2.2
George J. ANNAS
Bioterror and ‘Bioart’ – ‘a plage o’ both your houses’
2.3
Gregor WOLBRING
One World, One Olympics:
Governing Human Ability, Ableism & Disablism in an Era of Bodily Enhancements
2.4
Marilène OLIVER
Flesh to Data/Subject to Data: Examining Processes of Translation
2.5
Simone OSTHOFF
Eduardo Kac: A Conversation with the Artist
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE FUTURE
3.1
Kate O’RIORDAN
Fragments of Creative Cloning: Time, Money and Relationships
3.2
Nigel CAMERON
Global Governance and Emerging Technologies:
The Need for a Mainstream Policy Debate on Modifying Human Capacities
3.3
Duncan DALLAS
Will Public Engagement Lead to a Marriage between Science and Society?
[Material Beliefs]
3.4
Nicola TRISCOTT
Once Upon a Space Age:
How the dream was lost (and how we get it back again)
3.5
Pramod K. NAYAR
The Narrative Tradition of Posthuman Rights
3.6
David BENNETT
How Science Fiction Lost its Innocence – And Now Nano?
CREATIVE F(R)ICTIONS
4.1
George J. ANNAS
Our Most Important Product
4.2
Heather BRADSHAW
Sorrel
4.3
Catullus
Letter to a Supernatural Being
[Double Happiness Jeans – 6 Steps To Your Very Own Virtual Sweatshop!]
4.4
Jane GRANT, John MATTHIAS & Nick RYAN
The Fragmented Orchestra: Minds, Music and Memory
4.5
Ann WHITEHURST
The Future is a Fantasy
4.6
Norman M. KLEIN
Notes on the History of the Present
4.7
Oron CATTS & Laura SILLARS
Artists and Scientists: A Symbiotic Relationship?
4.8
etoy.CORPORATION
Mission Eternity
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5. 1
Author Biographies
5.2
Index
