Across the line
Stuart Murray [feature image: Kevin Sinfield carries Rob Burrow over the finish line of the marathon named in his honour. …
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Time and Artificial Hearts
Pat McConville I recently completed a doctoral research project focused on using the philosophical approach of phenomenology – the study …
Sporting bodies and evolving technologies
Feature image by josh Cochran by Ned Barker In 1894 Pierre de Coubertin adopted the Latin words for Faster, Higher, …
Leaving the Meat Behind in Amazon Prime’s The Peripheral
Dr Anna McFarlane Streaming services are desperate to break into the cultural zeitgeist that an instant-classic science fiction or fantasy …
Is it time we stopped using the word ‘cyborg’? Harry Parker’s Hybrid Human
Jennie Gilman In Hybrid Humans, Harry Parker makes a deeply personal, yet philosophically and scientifically rich case for ‘hybrid human’ …
Why do we find it so hard to be posthuman?
Michael Szollosy Way back in August 2020, I had intended to write a review of the intriguingly-titled, German-produced Netflix series, …
One app to rule them all: Disability and limitless technology
Stuart Murray In an article for New York magazine late last year, marketing and technologist specialist Scott Galloway ruminated on …
A Little Bit of Everything: S.B. Divya’s Machinehood
Stuart Murray An interesting subset of science and speculative fiction is the body of writing by figures who have had …
Outsourcing Womb: Surrogacy and Biocitizenship
image: Dutta, Ishani K. “India: Womb on Rent.” No Human Trafficking: Christus Liberat, 14 November. 2018 . Accessed 6 August 2021. Outsourcing Womb: …
Browsing the Catalogue of Medical Bodied Experience
Browsing the Catalogue of Medical Bodied Experience Dominic Berry There are things that medical professionals can and will do to …