Resilient Cyborgs: Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators

by Nelly Oudshoorn

Book Overview

Part I Introduction: Theorizing the Resilience of Hybrid Bodies.- 1. Rematerializing the Cyborg: Understanding the Agency of People Living with Technologies inside Their Bodies.- 2. On Vulnerable Bodies, Transformative Technologies, and Resilient Cyborgs.- Part II Technogeographies of Resilience.- 3. Creating Material-Resilient Cyborgs: Sensing and Tuning Agencies of Pacemakers and Defibrillators.- 4. Passive Victims of Faulty Machines? Anticipating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811525315
• ISBN13: 9789811525315
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"