Cybernetic Imaginations (eBook)

Visions and Augmentations: Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction and Popular Culture Mark Fryers and Marcus K. Harmes PART I The Cybernetic Imagination Cybernetics as Social Science Fiction Sheryl N. Hamilton Asimov's Cybernetic Plots Emilio Gianotti Normalised Cyborgisation: Cybernetics in the Cyberpunk Franchise Tonguc Sezen and Digdem Sezen PART II Bodies Cyborgs Are Disabled: Enhancement and Disability in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022) Rebecca L. Jones The Fantasy of the Healthy Body: Impairment and Uncertainty in Star Wars Phaedra Shanbaum and James Williamson xvi ix 1 29 47 61 79 93CONTENTS Re-Animation: De-Ageing, Posthumous Performances and the Life of the (Post)Human Alice Giuliani Emancipation from the Emitter: Towards a General Theory of AI Disability through 'The Samantha Complex' Kwasu David Tembo PART III Systems and Structures Noise in The Birds: A Cybernetic Re-reading Julian Sverre Bauer 'Do You Want to Hear It Talk?': Mechanised Voices and Technological Anxieties in Science Fiction Cinema Dario Llinares From Alien to Avatar Intelligence: James Cameron's Cybernetic Deconstructions Nikola Mladenovic 107 121 139 153 169 The Tyranny of Feedback: Ecological Entrapment in Frank Herbert's Dune 185 Attila Márton PART IV Identities Cyberpunk Periphery: Intruder's Love and Flashing Out the Visible Lamia Kosovic Trans*-Digital Life-Forms: Technology, Cybernetics and Ontology in Digimon Adventure (1999) Joule Zheng Wang 'The Offspring': What Does It Mean to Have and to Want a Child for an Android in Star Trek: The Next Generation? Sebastian Lederle Notes on Contributors Index