We imagine posthumans as humans made superhumanly intelligent or resilient by future
advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science …

In an era of heightened securitization, print, televisual and networked media have become
obsessed with the'pre-mediation'of future events. In response to the shock of 9/11, socially …

Smart Mobs takes us on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural
shift. The coming wave, says Rheingold, is the result of super-efficient mobile …

The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture is the definitive guide to the sociological and
anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a …

This book discusses a broad range of topics concerning video games, learning and literacy.
These include the ways games can marry pleasure, learning and mastery through the sense …

The concept of luck has played an important role in debates concerning free will and moral
responsibility, yet participants in these debates have relied upon an intuitive notion of what …

Theory is the bedrock of many sciences, providing a rigorous method to advance
knowledge, through testing and falsifying hypotheses about observable phenomena. To …

In The Brain's Body Victoria Pitts-Taylor brings feminist and critical theory to bear on new
development in neuroscience to demonstrate how power and inequality are materially and …

An exploration of embodied intelligence and its implications points toward a theory of
intelligence in general; with case studies of intelligent systems in ubiquitous computing …

The purpose of this article is to offer some reflections on the relationships between digital
technologies and learning. It is argued that activities of learning, as they have been …