Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Cyborg
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I’ve spent a bit of time today going through web links that have been archived in the “Research” folder this year. Here’s a selection of things related to various technological and transhumanist fronts.
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This time we’ll look at two comic-based films based on Japanese manga set on post-apocalyptic contexts. Firstly, Akira directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, set in a future Neo-Tokyo, and then, Alita: Battle Angel, set in a similar environment. Both of these, as well as a slew of other Japanese manga turned into film and television, del…
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The blog’s been pretty quiet while I’ve been concentrating on other things. One of those other things is a research project looking at post- and transhumanism in popular culture, and particularly in film. One of those projects has been the development of a couple of blogs to track that. The first of these is underway…
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I met with Prof. Toru Takahashi a week or two back, while he was here at the University of Waikato on sabbatical. Good conversations around cyborgs, religion, animé and manga. He’s written mostly in Japanese, but here’s an English version of a short article of his. An Invitation to the Study of Cyborgs – Cyborgs,…
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I like short films, and especially short science fiction films that unpack a particular question or theme (for example, the original short version of ‘9’), so I was interested to see this engaging trailer for a short film called ‘True Skin’ exploring the human technological augmentation and being wrapped in media: See the video trailer…
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Jennifer over at Rude Truth takes a look at the brief article on theology and “The Walking Dead” (Toward a Zombie Theology | Religion Dispatches), and argues that a cyborg theology, rather than a zombie one might be a better approach. See rude truth: toward a zombie cyborg theology Appears angels and zombies are the…
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It’s 50 years since the concept of the cyborg was introduced by Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline. To commemorate this, Tim Maly has solicited a bunch of brief essays inspired by the theme of the cyborg. See 50 Posts About Cyborgs. Hat tip to Kevin Kelly at The Technium: We, the Domesticated Cyborg.
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My browser has been collecting cyborg-related links over the last few weeks – so I’m getting them all out of the bookmarks here. No time like the present to discuss cyborg rights Everything You Need To Know About Movie/TV Cyborgs In One Giant Chart Jamais Cascio on Your Posthumanism Is Boring Me James Hughes on…
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From the io9 posthuman newsfeed is a brief article looking a this form of muscle/nerve prosthetic. I’m constantly amazed by this kind of thing, and can’t imagine what it will look like in 10-15 years time. See Portraits In Posthumanity: Claudia Mitchell – Posthumanity – io9
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Sentient Developments: Moving objects with your mind has a video clip of one of the new range of toys that use a wearable interface that ‘reads’ your brain’s activity to control physical objects.