Saying that capitalist relations of production and consumption are dominant, essentially across the entire planet by now, constitutes a truism. This is an obvious observation, at least for those who …
cern: the giant microscope
It is said that the large industrial exhibitions that moved through European and American cities from the middle of the 19th century onwards were, among other things (or perhaps primarily), …
social neuroscience: pills for socially sensitive at opportunity cost
the brain: the new big trick The engagement, to an obsessive degree, with the human (and not only) genome within technoscientific laboratories around the world is rather well known. And …
Terminator and Blade Runner: building cyborgs and humans
Making Cyborgs, Making Humans – Of terminators and blade runners by Forest Pyle is a chapter from the book The Cybercultures Reader (2000, Routledge editions), and we have included its …
the product is you!
The “social networking”, its platforms and companies, have taken over the field of social relations from the outset; primarily in the developed world, but not exclusively there. Customs and traditions …
struggle for the rights of cyborgs? It exists, it exists…
In March 2013, the annual Emerge conference took place at Arizona State University (ASU), focusing on the future that technological development holds for humanity. That year’s conference title was “the …
DIYbio: self-improvement in the 21st century
One would assume that biohackers are a marginal cosmopolitan phenomenon, some “geeks” here and there. Indeed, numerically speaking, biohackers may be few in number, for now. Ideologically, however, biohacking indicates …
portable, wearable, subcutaneous: the body as a motherboard
When the Swedish Epicenter (“incubator / greenhouse” for more than 100 startups in Stockholm) began planting passive microchips (RFID: Radio Frequency IDentification) in its employees at the beginning of 2017, …
digital grey plague
One of the reasons fascism is gaining ground is because it is considered a closed case, a phenomenon that belongs to the domain of history and not a dynamic condition …
the cyberlibertarian ideology and digital commons
a manifesto for cyberspace… “Oh, you governments of the Industrial World, you who look like exhausted and obsolete giants of flesh and metal, I come from Cyberspace, the new home …
when the weapons of cyber-warfare “hit where it hurts”…
It’s an otherwise ordinary Friday when the daily operations of public and private services around the world are suddenly disrupted. The UK’s National Health Service advises patients not to visit …
precision medicine: the personalization of medicine
The term “precision medicine” is relatively new and was mainly highlighted after 2011 thanks to a report by the U.S. national research council, which focused on the need for a …