Derec and Katherine must find a demented cyborg who walks the streets of Robot City like a ticking time bomb, indistinguishable from the other robots, but with a destructive capacity that only a human
For many cultural theorists, the concept of the cyborg - an organism controlled by mechanic processes - is firmly rooted in the post-modern, post-industrial, post-Enlightenment, post-nature, post-gend
The concept of the cyborg, or cybernetic organism, has led to notably creative explorations of the ambiguous relationship between human beings and technology. In particular, Donna Haraway argued in he
The Dada artists of Berlin, Germany, during the Weimar era engaged in an intense exploration of the figure of the cyborg. In part, according to Biro (modern and contemporary art, U. of Michigan), this
Part human, part machine, the cyborg is the hero of an increasingly popular genre of American film and, as Janice H. Rushing and Thomas S. Frentz so provocatively suggest, a cultural icon emblematic
From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But philosopher and
Pre-order the incredible book behind the primetime Channel 4 documentary, Peter: The Human Cyborg. __________Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves. His husban
Riven has fought for a hard-won peace in her world, and has come to shaky terms with who and what she isa human with cyborg DNA. Now that the rightful ruler of Neospes has been reinstated, Riven is on
Technologically-enhanced human bodies can be the stuff of dreams, but also of nightmares. The contradictions and complexities of the cyborg therefore hold particular appeal to programme makers of dram
BODY AND SOULKuriba Ryoko’s Doppelgänger–the by product of a cyborg experiment that may have generated a human soul–has run amok, and Misaka may be the only one who can stop it. Misaka’s unlikely team
A haunting fascination fuels our interest in the robot, the android, the cyborg, the replicant. Born in science fiction literature, the artificial human has come into its own in films, lurching to lif
Pre-order the incredible book behind the primetime Channel 4 documentary, Peter: The Human Cyborg.__________Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves.His husband. His
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN? ? The lovely, deadly cyborg Alita returns in 664 pages of cyberpunk action! Alita wakes up alone in the sky city of Tiphares, her brain and body reconstructed by the mad
In the first-ever novel about a cyborg, a machine-enhanced man from a multiverse of the far future visits 1920s England.In 1920s England, a strange being crashes a village cricket game. After some glitchy, jerky attempts to communicate, this creature reveals that he is a machine-enhanced human from a multiverse thousands of years in the future. The mechanism implanted in his skull has malfunctioned, sending him tumbling through time onto the green grass of the cricket field. Apparently in the future, at the behest of fed-up women, all men will be controlled by an embedded “clockwork,” camouflaged with hats and wigs. Published in 1923, The Clockwork Man―the first cyborg novel―tells the story of this odd time traveler’s visit. Spending time with two village couples about to embark upon married life, the Clockwork Man warns that because men of the twentieth century are so violent, sexist, and selfish, in the not-too-distant future they will be banned from physical reality. They will inh
