Author : Gilbert Morris
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1575676540
The Seven Sleepers agree to help their new friend Rainor rescue his sweetheart from cyborgs. But the city of the cyborgs is totally bizarre. The Sleepers get in, but they can't get out. Watch Josh and Sarah and your other Sleeper friends tackle their rescue mission. And see them get the advice they need from Goel, their good leader, at just the right time.
Author : M. Elizabeth Ginway
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826501192
Writers in Brazil and Mexico discovered early on that speculative fiction provides an ideal platform for addressing the complex issues of modernity, yet the study of speculative fictions rarely strays from the United States and England. Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead expands the traditional purview of speculative fiction in all its incarnations (science fiction, fantasy, horror) beyond the traditional Anglo-American context to focus on work produced in Mexico and Brazil across a historical overview from 1870 to the present. The book portrays the effects—and ravages—of modernity in these two nations, addressing its technological, cultural, and social consequences and their implications for the human body. In Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead, M. Elizabeth Ginway examines all these issues from a number of theoretical perspectives, most importantly through the lens of Bolívar Echeverría’s “baroque ethos,” which emphasizes the strategies that subaltern populations may adopt in order to survive and prosper in the face of massive historical and structural disadvantages. Foucault’s concept of biopolitics is developed in discussion with Roberto Esposito’s concept of immunity and Giorgio Agamben’s distinction between “political life” and “bare life.” This book will be of interest to scholars of speculative fiction, as well as Mexicanists and Brazilianists in history, literary studies, and critical theory.
Author : Federico Cugurullo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 100381042X
This book explores in theory and practice how artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with and alters the city. Drawing upon a range of urban disciplines and case studies, the chapters reveal the multitude of repercussions that AI is having on urban society, urban infrastructure, urban governance, urban planning and urban sustainability. Contributors also examine how the city, far from being a passive recipient of new technologies, is influencing and reframing AI through subtle processes of co-constitution. The book advances three main contributions and arguments: First, it provides empirical evidence of the emergence of a post-smart trajectory for cities in which new material and decision-making capabilities are being assembled through multiple AIs. Second, it stresses the importance of understanding the mutually constitutive relations between the new experiences enabled by AI technology and the urban context. Third, it engages with the concepts required to clarify the opaque relations that exist between AI and the city, as well as how to make sense of these relations from a theoretical perspective. Artificial Intelligence and the City offers a state-of-the-art analysis and review of AI urbanism, from its roots to its global emergence. It cuts across several disciplines and will be a useful resource for undergraduates and postgraduates in the fields of urban studies, urban planning, geography, architecture, urban design, science and technology studies, sociology and politics.
Author : J. Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230109772
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org . Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity.
Author : Stephen B. Scharper
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802091601
Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global climate change and declining biodiversity, it is no longer viable. New technologies are promising to provide renewable energy sources and greener designs, but real change will require a deeper shift in values, attitudes, and perceptions. A timely and important collection, The Natural City explores how to integrate the natural environment into healthy urban centres from philosophical, religious, socio-political, and planning perspectives. Recognizing the need to better link the humanities with public policy, The Natural City offers unique insights for the development of an alternative vision of urban life.
Author : Gilbert Morris
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0802481884
This set includes all seven books of The Lost Chronicles series: The Spell of the Crystal Chair, The Savage Games of Lord Zarak, The Strange Creatures of Dr. Korbo, The City of the Cyborgs, The Temptations of Pleasure Island, The Victims of Nimbo, and The Terrible Beast of Zor. Lost Chronicles of several adventures of the Seven Sleepers have been discovered! Come along with Josh, Sarah, and the gang as they are sent by Goel, their spiritual leader, on dangerous and challenging missions to help thwart the plans of the Dark Lord.
Author : Jessica Marting
Publisher : Shadow Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1989780008
Cyborg Adam Johnston’s rescue and escape from Omega-Three-Omega didn’t come without devastating losses. Wanting to get his life back on track, he returns to his home world of Gamma-10 and his childhood sweetheart, Esme. But a surprise is in store for him: Gamma-10 has been destroyed in his absence, and Esme is living in its ruins, raising the daughter he didn’t know he had. SAFE HARBOR is a sweet short story set in the Zone Cyborgs Series between OASIS (Book 3) and SANCTUARY (Book 4). ZONE CYBORGS READING ORDER Haven Paradise Oasis Safe Harbor Sanctuary Refuge Keywords: sci fi romance, cyborg romance, science fiction romance, space opera, space opera romance, far future, genetic engineering, cyberpunk romance
Author : Chris Hables Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 135110781X
Building off the highly successful The Cyborg Handbook, this new collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces brings together a set of compelling personal accounts about what it means to live as a cyborg in the twenty-first century. Human integration with complex technologies goes back to clothes, cooking, and language, but has accelerated incredibly in the last few centuries, with interest spreading among scientists, coders, people with sophisticated implants, theorists, and artists. This collection includes some of the most articulate of these voices from over 25 countries, including Donna Haraway, Stelarc, Natasha Vita-More, Steve Mann, Amber Case, Michael Chorost, Moon Ribas, Kevin Warwick, Sandy Stone, Dion Farquhar, Angeliki Malakasioti, Elif Ayiter, Heesang Lee, Angel Gordo, and others. Addressing topics including race, gender, sexuality, class, conflict, capitalism, climate change, disability and beyond, this collection also explores the differences between robots, androids, cyborgs, hybrids, post-, trans-, and techno-humans, offering readers a critical vocabulary for understanding and discussing the cyborgification of culture and everyday life. Compelling, interdisciplinary, and international, the book is a perfect primer for students, researchers, and teachers of cyberculture, media and cultural theory, and science fiction studies, as well as anyone interested in the intersections between human and machine.
Author : Rebecca Gibson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
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ISBN : 3031610105
Author : Rocky Termanini
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1351682873
Present anti-virus technologies do not have the symmetrical weaponry to defeat massive DDoS attacks on smart cities. Smart cities require a new set of holistic and AI-centric cognitive technology, such as autonomic components that replicate the human immune system, and a smart grid that connects all IoT devices. The book introduces Digital Immunity and covers the human immune system, massive distributed attacks (DDoS) and the future generations cyber attacks, the anatomy and critical success factors of smart city, Digital Immunity and the role of the Smart Grid, how Digital Immunity defends the smart city and annihilates massive malware, and Digital Immunity to combat global cyber terrorism.
