I strongly recommend you read Ray Kurzweil on transhumanism. Start with The Singularity is Near (try to get a recent edition as they have extra material where he answers some criticisms of this ideas) and then go to The Age of Spiritual Machines. Readers Digest Condensed Version = we are going to merge with machines. Glyn Moody - Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution and also Mark Pesce - http://thenextbillionseconds.com/2012/01/10/initiation/ Cory Doctorow, both his fiction and non fiction writings, perhaps especially for your purposes his book Little Brother. Charles Stross especially his book Halting State. His story Lobsters is just crazy out there, but amazing. Regards, Morgan Leigh PhD Candidate School of Sociology and Social Work University of Tasmania On 27/02/2012 7:46 AM, Carmel Vaisman wrote:
Dear all,
I would appreciate your help in finding papers and books that employ philosophical concepts to explain the impact of current technology or even predict human change based on social media and digital culture. For example, Slavoy Zizek's latest writing, Roger Silverstone's writing on "proper distance", Bauman's writing on presence and mobile telephony and even Turkle's latest book. Anything similar goes.
Thank you,
Carmel L. Vaisman, PhD. Visiting Scholar at Indiana University Mobile: (812) 360-4212 http://www.absolutecarmel.com @carmelva _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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