Modified: Living as a Cyborg

Chris Hables Gray is the author of Postmodern War, Cyborg Citizen and Peace, War and Computers. He is a Continuing Lecturer and Fellow at Crown College, University of California at Santa Cruz. Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera is a community social psychologist and professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Her research area is focused on digital technology and the transformations of everyday life, subjectivity, and embodiment. Steven Mentor is a Professor of Critical Thinking, English and American Literature, and writing at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose, California. His current research includes cyborgs and climate justice, climate fiction, and new models of online and hybrid learning.

Introduction: "You Are a Cyborg; Deal With It!" The Overdetermination of Cyborgization Part 1: Being a Cyborg Is My Job 1 Modifeyed: Why Privellance is More Important to Our Cyborg Future Than Privacy 2 The Avatars of alpha.tribe 3 Tanks, the Shield of Achilles, and Social Cyborgs 4 Experiments With Cyborg Technology 5 The Body Vehicle: An Argument for Transhuman Bodies 6 When I First Met Jesus He Was Cyborg Part 2: Being a Cyborg for My Health 7 Pers. ex. 8 Infusions/Infusiones 9 To see with eyes unshielded: Perceiving life as a partible cyborg 10 "Don’t Mess with My Heart Device, I'll Do It Myself." In Which Karen and Marie Interview Each Other 11 Becoming an Accidental Cyborg Feminist Socialist 12 The Ghost in the Biome 13 "Cyborg" "Mom" Part 3: Imagining Myself Cyborg 14 Cyborgian Episteme as Queer Art-science 15 Computer Kid 16 Seven Ghosts: Critical Confessions of a Psyborg Mind 17 A Mundane Cyborg: The Smartphone, the Body, and the City 18 To Be Transhumanist, Or Not To Be 19 On Cultural Cyborgs Part 4: Performing My Cyborgness 20 Waiting for Earthquakes 21 My Cyborg Performance as a Techno-Cerebral Subject 22 A song for the Universe in the Dialect of Terran Cyborg Companions 23 Modulating 24 Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras: Alternative Anatomical Architectures Part 5: Thinking Myself a Cyborg 25 I, Cyborgologist 26 Cyborg Empathy for the Age of (In)Difference 27 Being a Cyborg in a Connected World Increasingly Mediated by Algorithms: From the Perspective of Two Brazilian Journalists 28 Social Challenges: The Serious Game of Digitalization 29 Disc/erning the Crisis: A Mundane Cyborg Throws Hope to the Wind 30 The Best Possible Now Artist’s Comment