Human enhancement technologies and the future of consumer well-being

V Lima, R Belk - Journal of Services Marketing, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework that highlights
transhumanism's ideals of achieving superintelligence, super longevity and super well …

Bodies as machines. Machines as bodies

V Lima, R Belk - Consumption Markets & Culture, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
From early Greek philosophers to Descartes' machinic metaphors of humans-as-machines,
to the emergence of physical machine-like humans, the intersections of the human body with …

The Promethean biohacker: on consumer biohacking as a labour of love

VM Lima, LA Pessoa, RW Belk - … and Biotechnologies in …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Just as the mythical Greek Titan Prometheus created humans and brought them the
technology of fire, the biohackers studied here seek to recreate humanity and bring us …

La perspectiva tecnosocial feminista como antídoto para la misoginia online

MJ Rubio Martín, ÁJ Gordo López - 2021 - docta.ucm.es
Este artículo revisa las principales aportaciones de la perspectiva tecnosocial feminista
frente a la violencia sexual y de género en entornos digitales (a lo que denominamos …

Smartphone Moves: How Changes in Embodied Configuration with One's Smartphone Adjust Conversational Engagement

E Mantere - Social Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Smartphones are often spontaneously used for personal purposes and during face-to-face
gatherings. New terms like “phubbing” and “technoference” describe negative …

Cyberphysicality: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Studying the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its Implications on Business, Communication and Learning

I Subeh - The Implementation of Smart Technologies for …, 2022 - Springer
Blockchain, artificial intelligence and the internet of things are a few examples of the
infrastructural innovations of the cyberphysical paradigm of technological development …

Cyborg figurations: Exploring the intersections of technology, embodiment, identity, and ecology

G Haddow, C Åsberg, F Timeto - Tecnoscienza, 2023 - research.ed.ac.uk
This cross-disciplinary exploration delves into the multifaceted intersections of technology,
embodiment, identity, and ecology through the lens of cyborg knowing. The first contribution …

Am I a Cyborg? Are You?

W Totschnig - Philosophia, 2022 - Springer
The term “cyborg” is being used in a surprising variety of ways. Some authors argue that the
human being as such is—and has always been—a cyborg (Clark, Sorgner). Others see the …

From Méliès to Ducournau: Transhumanist Bodies in French Cinema

H Kim - 2024 - d-scholarship.pitt.edu
This dissertation examines the films of four French directors, Georges Méliès, René Laloux,
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and Julia Ducournau, from the perspective of transhumanism. While the …

Transhumanism and the phenomenology of cyborg senses

VM Lima - The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
While prior consumer research considered human sensorial experiences that are
psychologically and culturally well defined, this study explores the undefined, unknown, and …