43 Places 25 years later: Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" It has been 25 years since Donna Haraway published her seminal essay, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century."While largely intended as metaphorical discourse, a number of feminists and futurists, including myself, were inspired by a more literal and technoprogressive interpretation of Haraway's message. The piece was a major influence on my conception of postgenderist theory, inspiring such articles as "Overcoming Gender" and "Postgenderism: Beyond the Gender Binary" (PDF) (the latter of which I co-authored with James Hughes). In "A Cyborg Manifesto," Haraway issued a challenge to feminists to engage in a politics beyond naturalism and essentialism. From another angle, "A Cyborg Manifesto" can be interpreted as a critique of ecofeminism.
Immortal avatars: Back up your brain, never die - life - 07 June Editorial: The avatar revolution: Here come the new humans ZOE GRAYSTONE is a girl with two brains. Only one of them is human: the other is an exact digital copy that has become conscious in its own right. Such ideas have littered science fiction for decades. Though there is little prospect of creating a genuinely conscious robo-clone in the foreseeable future, several companies are taking the first steps in that direction. Marjolijn Boterenbrood || Kijken naar Haarlem Oost Marjolijn Boterenbrood is beeldend kunstenaar. Intensief onderzoek naar specifieke locaties is de basis van haar werk. Ze vertaalt indrukken van een plek in gedroomde en -ten dele- bedachte 'kaarten', foto's, ruimtelijk werk maar ook in manifestaties. In dat laatste geval gaat het om grootschalige kunstprojecten. Een voorbeeld is het Storkterrein in Amsterdam.
Actualité de l'animal-machine - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon Actualité de l'animal-machine Colloque La représentation du vivant : du cerveau au comportement Session Pensée et identité / sous la présidence d'Olivier Faure On a pu croire que la théorie cartésienne de l’animal-machine avait perdu toute vertu heuristique, et que l’animal était, depuis lors, considéré comme un être sensible doté d’états mentaux. Déjà la zootechnie moderne considère l'animal comme une «machine vivante à aptitude multiple». Equipe technique Directeur de la production: Christophe Porlier, Responsable des moyens techniques: Francis Ouedraogo, Réalisation : Service commun audiovisuel et multimédia, Exploitation : Julien Lopez, Cadre:Mathias Chassagneux, Son: Xavier comméat, Montage-Encodage-Diffusion Web:Jean-Claude Troncard
Loopt - Discover the world around you Designer Psychologies: Moving beyond neurotypicality Designer psychologies, or customized cognitive processing modalities, describes the potential for future individuals to selectively alter the specific and unique ways in which they take in, analyze and perceive the world. Cognitive modalities are the psychological frameworks that allow for person-to-person variances in subjectivity, including such things as emotional responses, social engagement, aesthetics and prioritization. The day is coming when we'll be able to decide for ourselves how it is exactly that we want to process our world. Most of us have the so-called neurotypical cognitive response. We know, however, mostly through our interactions with those outside of the cognitive norm, that neurotypicality is not the be-all and end-all of psychological experience. As the Autism Rights Movement has demonstrated, our tendency to describe anyone outside the neurotypical norm as being abnormal, pathological or broken in some way is not entirely accurate or fair. The processing mind A.
About Thoughts - An Artificial Intelligence AI chatbot, chatterb Jabberwacky is an artificial intelligence - a chat robot, often known as a 'chatbot' or 'chatterbot'. It aims to simulate natural human chat in an interesting, entertaining and humorous manner. Jabberwacky is different. It learns. In some ways it models the way humans learn language, facts, context and rules. The whole thing started way back in 1988, and went on the web in 1997. The 'general AI' of Jabberwacky stores everything everyone has ever said, and finds the most appropriate thing to say using contextual pattern matching techniques. Learning purely from conversation gives an AI's general intelligence and character - but is not meant for use in business circumstances where more control over conversational flow is required. Icogno Ltd is Jabberwacky's commercially-oriented parent company. You might like to look at some example conversations - our own Chatbot Blog. For News and articles about Jabberwacky and AI, see Press & PR.
Hands-On Geolocation: An App For “Proud Masturbators And Public Most press releases are extremely boring. They all say the same things. Not this one. Today, my inbox was graced by pitch that can only be described as stimulating. It made me laugh, it made me question if it was real, and it made me a little creeped out — all in one. There are plenty of tagged places in San Francisco already. Generally, it’s very poor form to just copy and paste a press release into a post, but this one is just too good for everyone to miss. Not sure this beats the best man who rigged his friends’ bed to tweet during sex, but it’s close.
Elementymology & Elements Multidict This is THE web site for element names. You will find this site useful not only for the origins (etymology) of element names, but also for translations of each element name into numerous other languages.(McGraw-Hill Ryerson) Peter van der Krogt mixes science, history, and etymology to create an exhaustive database of the elements. Alphabetical lists Click on Indexes for: » Chronology of the discovery » Persons involved in the discovery and naming » Name origin » Names that did not make it Specials Specials for the history of Chemical symbols, how to spell Mendeleev, Sellars' Chemistianity, the naming of the rare earths, and much more you'll find under the 'Specials' tab. Peter van der Krogt in Strontian (18 September 2004), the town where the element Strontium got its name from, and in Ytterby, Sweden (21 July 2009), the town where Erbium, Terbium, Ytterbium, and Yttrium got their name from (more photos here) Latest updates Acknowledgments What do you NOT find in this web site?
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