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#Cyberculture agenda: “The Cyborg Bill of Rights v1.0”

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The Cyborg Bill of Rights v1.0  Boing Boing by Richard MacKinnon   In anticipation of the battle for the body, we can envision a conflict among competing interests in property located within a person’s body and likely connected to externally controlled resources for storage, logging, and monitoring–for instance, a medical device–and we can imagine that someone’s … Read more

Anthropology roundup: “Anthropology and the MacArthurs…

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Anthropology and the MacArthurs Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology The 2016 MacArthur Fellows were announced yesterday and — unlike some years — there were no anthropologists on the list. Established back in 1981, the grant was intended not to find “geniuses” (despite the fact that its nicknamed the genius grant) but rather “talented individuals … Read more