Cyborgs/power + cyborg/art: race, gender, class

Chris H. Gray; Steven Mentor; Lissette Olivares

Cyborgs/power + cyborg/art: race, gender, class

Chris H. Gray Lecturer, UCSC and CSUMB
Steven Mentor Professor of Writing, Evergreen College.
Lissette Olivares PhD Candidate, History of Consciousness Department, UCSC

Keywords: Art, cyborgology, hybrids, the future.

Abstract

A detailed discussion of the role of art in understanding cyborgs, and the power of art in shaping us. A contextualization of the articles of the special issue of Teknokultura on cyborgs, power, art, race, gender and class is made. Particular attention is paid to The Acceleration, Prefiguration, and Participatory Evolution.

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Chris H. Gray, Lecturer, UCSC and CSUMB

Co-editor of The Cyborg Handbook, author of Cyborg Citizen, Postmodern War, and Peace, War and Computers. Currently finishing Infoisms: Aphorisms on Information and a novel about Santa Cruz, California. See http://www.chrishablesgray.org

Steven Mentor, Professor of Writing, Evergreen College.

Co-editor of The Cyborg Handbook and author of numerous articles about cyborgization.

Lissette Olivares, PhD Candidate, History of Consciousness Department, UCSC

Lissette Olivares is a transmedia activist committed to inter and post disciplinary approaches to knowledge production. She is a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she investigates the role of new media in social movements from a transnational and transhistorical perspective. For the past decade she has developed a convergence of practices that include individual and collaboratively produced academic research, activism, art production, curating, and pedagogy. Together with Cheto Castellano she co-founded Sin Kabeza Productions, a multimodal artist-activist research platform dedicated to the creation and dissemination of experimental transmedia, which features, amongst others, the work of Coco Rico, a feminist anarchist cyborg.

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2013-04-03

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Gray C. H., Mentor S. y Olivares L. (2013). Cyborgs/power + cyborg/art: race, gender, class. Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, 10(2), 307-326. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/48253

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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2013): Cyborgs/power + cyborg/art: race, gender, class

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Editorial

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