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Prof. Robert Baskerville's SOC: Transhumanism

This guide is used in supplement with Prof. Baskerville's Soc class for Fall 2017 in order to augment materials and learning objectives.

Materials on Transhumanism

Academic Sources

 

Hook, C. Christopher. "Transhumanism and Posthumanism." Bioethics, edited by Bruce Jennings, 4th ed., vol. 6, Macmillan Reference USA, 2014, pp. 3096-3102 Gale eBooks.

Darnovsky, Marcy, and Emily Smith Beitiks. "Biopolitics." Bioethics, edited by Bruce Jennings, 4th ed., vol. 1, Macmillan Reference USA, 2014, pp. 421-431. Gale eBooks,

Beyond the Quantified Self: Thematic Exporation of a Dataistic Paradigm.  Not available at CUNY, use Inter-Library Loan ILLiad) to order.

Ledford, Heidi. "Biohackers Gear up for Genome Editing." Nature, vol. 524, no. 7566, 27 Aug. 2015, pp. 398-399. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1038/524398a.

Lorenzo, Víctor and Markus Schmidt. "The Do-It-Yourself Movement as a Source of Innovation in Biotechnology - and Much More." Microbial Biotechnology, vol. 10, no. 3, May 2017, pp. 517-519. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/1751-7915.12715.

Vaage, Nora. "Fringe Biotechnology." Biosocieties, vol. 12, no. 1, Mar. 2017, pp. 109-131. doi:10.1057/s41292-016-0033-0.

Seven Myths & Realities About Do-It-Yourself Biology, Daniel Grushkin, Todd Kuiken, Ph.D., Piers Millet, Ph.D, Woodrow Wilson Center, November 2013

Pauwels, Eleonore, The Rise of the New Bio-Citizen Feb. 2018 

Madrid Declaration on Science and Life: http://www.fiamc.org/bioethics/madrid-declaration-on-science-life/

"Special Report: Hacking the Human OS," 5/29/2015 https://spectrum.ieee.org/static/hacking-the-human-os 

 

Popular Sources

Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers, Ben Popper, The Verge, August 8, 2012 https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/8/3177438/cyborg-america-biohackers-grinders-body-hackers

 McGARRRY, CAITLIN. "Chewable Coffee and the Apple Watch: Getting Started with Basic Biohackinq."

Sifferlin, Alexandra. "Death, Disrupted." Time, vol. 189, no. 7/8, 27 Feb. 2017, pp. 80-85.

Jacobsen, Rowan. "Hacking Your Genes Has Never Been Easier." Outside, Sept. 2017, pp. 70-76.

How Quantified-Self Will Redefine the Future of the Enterprise, Ryan Fuller, Wired, 01/2015, https://www.wired.com/insights/2015/01/quantified-self-enterprise/

Choose Your Own Sixth Sense: DIY Superpower for the Cyborg on a Budget, Will Oremus. Slate, March 14 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/superman/2013/03/cyborgs_grinders_and_body_hackers_diy_tools_for_adding_sensory_perceptions.html

Tools for Would-Be Biohackers: Here Comes 3 Mini-labs—These Desktop Gadgets Should make DIY Genetic Engineering Much Easier, Eliza Strickland, 29 Nov 2016, https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/tools-for-would-be-biohackers-here-come-3-mini-labs

"Biohackers of the World, Unite." Economist, vol. 412, no. 8903, 06 Sept. 2014, pp. 3-4.

Kimiya, Manoochehri and TODAY USA. "A Plan to Live to 180 through Coffee, Butter and Biohacking .." USA Today.

Fusion Biopolitics, Jeremy Rifkin, The Nation, 1/31/2002, https://www.thenation.com/article/fusion-biopolitics/

 

Books

Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by George M. Church and Ed Regis

Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life by Dawn Nafus (Editor) Not available at CUNY, use Inter-Library Loan (ILLiad) to order.

Self-Tracking, Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus.  Not available at CUNY, use Inter-Library Loan (ILLiad) to order.

The Quantified Self, Deborh Lupton.  Not available at CUNY, use Inter-Library Loan (ILLiad) to order.

Biology Is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life, Robert H. Carlson

 

Films & Videos

Video Clips

This Guy Implanted a Giant Computer Chip Into His Arm Without Medical Supervision http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/01/this-guy-implanted-a-giant-computer-chip-into-his-arm-without-medical-supervision/

Cyborg Foundation, Rafel Duran https://vimeo.com/51920182

Sci-Fi

Gattaca

Limitless