Introductions
Sir Drummond Bone
Foreword
Mike Stubbs & Laura Sillars
Life in the 21st Century: Practice-based Research & the Application of Art
Andy Miah
Introduction
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Visions
Steve Fuller
The Future is Divine: A History of Human God-Playing
Jennifer Willet
BIOplay: Bacteria Cultures
Russell Blackford
Embracing the Unknown Future: In Defence of New Technology
Ruud Ter Meulen
Will Human Enhancement Make Us Better? Ethical reflections on the enhancement of human capacities by means of biomedical technologies
Richard A.L. Jones
Our Faith in Technology
Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby & Andy Miah
Screening for Undesirable Genes: The Evidence Dolls Project
Contested Bodies
Sandra Kemp
Shaping the Human: The New Aesthetic
George J. Annas
Bioterror and 'Bioart' - 'a plague o' both your houses'
Gregor Wolbring
One World, One Olympics: Governing Human Ability, Ableism & Disablism in an Era of Bodily Enhancements
Marilène Oliver
Flesh to Data/Subject to Data: Examining Processes of Translation
Simone Osthoff
Eduardo Kac: A Conversation with the Artist
Political Economy of the Future
Kate O'Riordan
Fragments of Creative Cloning: Time, Money and Relationships
Nigel Cameron
Global Governance and Emerging Technologies: The Need for a Mainstream Policy Debate on Modifying Human Capacities
Duncan Dallas
Will Public Engagement Lead to a Marriage between Science and Society?
[Material Beliefs]
Nicola Triscott
Once Upon a Space Age: How the dream was lost {and how we get it back again}
Pramod K. Nayar
The Narrative Tradition of Posthuman Rights
David Bennett
How Science Fiction Lost its Innocence - And Now Nano?
Creative F{r}ictions
George J. Annas
Our Most Important Product
Heather Bradshaw
Sorrel
Catullus
Letter to a Supernatural Being
[Double Happiness Jeans - 6 Steps To Your Very Own Virtual Sweatshop!]
Jane Grant, John Matthias & Nick Ryan
The Fragmented Orchestra: Minds, Music and Memory
Ann Whitehurst
The Future is a Fantasy
Norman M. Klein
Notes toward the History of the Present
Oron Catts & Laura Sillars
Artists and Scientists: A Symbiotic Relationship?
etoy.Corporation
Mission Eternity
End Matter
Author Biographies
Subject Index
Image Index
Name Index
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