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Softcover. Zustand: Neu. 1. Auflage. Taking up where the successful first part of our series left off, this anthology stands under the motto "future" -- and the ways in which the present sees itself reflected in it. Maintaining a broadened perspective on technical development and technology while also putting special emphasis on its social implementation, this year's conference focuses on Science and Social Fiction. The genre of the "fantastic" is especially well suited to the investigation of the touchy area of sexuality and pornography: actual and assumed developments are frequently depicted positively and approvingly, but just as often with dystopian admonishment. Here the classic, and continuingly valid, themes of modernism represent a clear link between the two aspects: questions of science, research and technologization are of interest, as is the complex surrounding urbanism, artificiality and control (or the loss of control). Depictions of the future, irregardless of the form they take, always address the present as well. Imaginations of the fantastic and the nightmarish give rise to a thematic overlapping of the exotic, the alienating and, of course, the pornographic/sexual as well. Featuring essays and stories by Rudy Rucker, Richard Kadrey, James Tiptree, Jr., Allen Stein, Sharing is Sexy, Jason Brown, Cory Doctorow, Annalee Newitz, Tina Lorenz, Reesa Brown, Karin Harrasser, Isaac Leung, Rose White, Mela Mikes, Viviane, Susan Mernit, Chris Noessel, Kit O'Connell, Jens Ohlig, Bonni Rambatan, Thomas Roche, Bonnie Ruberg, Mae Saslaw, Violet Blue, Nathan Shedroff, 23N!, Benjamin Cowden, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Daniel Fabry.

Gr.-8°, Okart. Zustand: Sehr gut. 240 S., Ill. sehr gutes Exemplar Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 850.

Zustand: Good. Auflage: 2013. Leicht beschädigt.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorAlex Zhavoronkoff, Ph.D. is an expert in biotechnology and biophysics who has pioneered many initiatives to improve and extend senior health. He serves as director of both the Biogerontology Research Foundation and Int.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThe Atrocity Exhibition is J.G. Ballard s most complex, disturbing work, with fabulous photos by Ana Barrado and artwork by Phoebe Gloeckner.

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnV. Vale is a popular-cultural investigator as recognized by The New York Times, NPR and other major dispersers of culture and the news. He has been self-publishing for over 30 years and now is a talk-s.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnJohannes Grenzfurthner, Gunther Friesinger, and Daniel Fabry are members of monochrom, an art-technology-philosophy collective having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculi.

paperback. Zustand: Gut. 233 Seiten; 9780965046985.3 Gewicht in Gramm: 1.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dating AI is 'a meditation on how to prepare for the unknown,' a thought experiment designed to stimulate new ideas about issues that are important now as well as in the future. Fictional descriptions of human-android romances are interspersed with commentary about the varying differences between people and AI (Artificial Intelligence), and methods for breaching the chasm between machine and human experience. Chapters tie speculation into contemporary life, drawing parallels between current human interactions with machines. Section 1, 'Are you ready to fall in love with a machine ' explains what you'll need to know to engage romantically with AI (including similarities and differences). Section 2, 'You are ready, now what ' helps interested humans prepare to date AI. Section 3, 'Establishing a relationship' covers the complicated mix of human and AI needs in a relationship, including power dynamics and acceptable behavior. Section 4, 'Getting over a breakup (or merger)' explains some of the legal and economic fallout that could result from the demise of an human-AI breakup. Dating AI is an entertaining, humorous (even slightly satirical) exploration: not only of a possible future, but also of our rapidly changing present relationships with other people and technology. Discerning readers will be compelled to utilize their imaginations, again and again, in an attempt to depict the Psychology of the Future, which looks to be significantly different from anything Freud might have considered. To quote the visionary writer J.G. Ballard, 'Sex times technology equals the future.' Just as almost nobody predicted the Internet until it suddenly seemed to have ensnared all within its grasp, so the technology of AI may, sooner than we think, come to be as natural as breathing, and inevitably, perhaps deeply, ensconced in our unconscious -- to be revealed in our dream life as we fall asleep at night. Dreams reveal truths far beyond what the rational mind might consider 'tolerable.' It is only at the borders of acceptability where our future freedoms reveal themselves, adumbrating and perhaps incubating a society of the future, where science and art seamlessly integrate themselves, and where poetry and technology are no longer alien domains but a vast cultural continuum where play and discovery create new language and, ahem, acceptable behaviors! We shall see.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First published 20 years ago, 'Modern Primitives' is still called 'the bible of the tattooing-piercing underground.' Here is a celebratory reprinting, complete with a new introduction by original editor/publisher V. Vale. Also added is a new community section, where current practitioners have been invited to have their cards displayed. 'Modern Primitives' was the first book to investigate not only the 'how' but also the 'why' of body modification practices. It reaches far back into history to multiform cultural traditions to illuminate one of today's most wide-spread youth culture visual signifiers. Heavily illustrated with detailed, contemporary photographs, as well as archival anthropological images and drawings of ancient tattoo traditions, 'Modern Primitives' was ground-zero for today's body-modification trends.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An Anthology of the 2009 Arse Elektronika colloquium, which takes place annually in San Francisco. The Arse event is an exploration of future, current, and past technology as it is used in regards to erotic human relations. The 2009 Arse Elektronika was centered around biotechnology and body modification. Besides lively interviews and fiery panel discussions, Of Intercourse and Intracourse includes personal essays and anecdotes, project descriptions the reader can actually build, research bibliographies, and lots of information on historical and speculative theories and practices. Interesting, entertaining, and mentally stimulating, its wide-reaching topics, are well thought-out and thought-provoking in turn. Some of the subjects and projects included: trans-species and extraterrestrial pornography, tantric sex, 'joydick" and 'pussypad" project instructions, polyamory + technology, W.S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch, latex, intimacy, biometrics, and the future of sex -just to name a few. This is an amusing and mind-expanding foray into technology with a purpose. Of Intercourse and Intracourse is replete with fun and funny ways to use electronics for pleasure and self-control, and keeping the multitude of unusual ideas afloat, there is plenty of information on the psychologies behind them. The participant-contributors, besides being 'far-out" thinkers in their respective fields, are also deep thinkers on the state of humanity now and in decades to come. These are refreshingly un-self-conscious viewpoints, brainstorming, and theoretical fantasies on the topic of sex in the 21st century and beyond. Features, essays and projects by Eleanor Saitta, R.U. Sirius, Jack Sargeant, Annalee Newitz, Katrien Jacobs, Christian Heller, Bonni Rambatan, Kyle Machulis, Saul Albert, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Violet Blue, Carol Queen, Douglas Spink, Rose White, Rainer Prohaska, Thomas Ballhausen, Uncle Abdul, Elle Mehrmand (Echolalia Azalee), Micha Cárdenas (Azdel Slade), Ani Niow, Monika Kribusz, Noah Weinstein, Randy Sarafan, Allen Stein, Kim De Vries, Pepper Mint, Robert Glashuettnencr, Jonathon Keats.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den Autor Artist and writer BrionGysin [January 19, 1916-July 13, 1986] was a long-time friend and collaboratorof William S. Burroughs--who described Gysin as the only man I ever .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For the first time in print, these forgotten conversations are now hereby available for your reading pleasure. From the beaches of Morocco to a penthouse in France; to London, San Francisco and Kansas-now you can vicariously relive the experiences and tribulations of five of the previous century's free thinkers and inven-tors of culture: W.S. Burroughs.