Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology

A month or so back, I published a couple of new articles, which each deal with the concept of posthumanism. The main article details a typology of human enhancements that aims to clarify the different levels of discussion and expectation of human enhancement technologis. The second is a ‘Letter to Utopia’, a reply to Nick Bostrom’s Letter from Utopia published alongside my paper in SELT. They’re available through the SELT website:

MIAH, A. (2008) Engineering Greater Resilience or Radical Transhuman Enhancement? Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2, http://www.bepress.com/selt/vol2/iss1/art5.

MIAH, A. (2008) Letter to Utopia. Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2, http://www.bepress.com/selt/vol2/iss1/art7

Mike Stubbs Martha Rosler Library Lecturer

Mike Stubbs

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Part of the Biennial for 2008

CULTURE AND CONSEQUENCE: The role of ethics in the arts today (12 June, 2008, London)

Culture and Consequence is a one-day conference produced by LCACE in partnership with the Cultural Leadership Programme.

The aim of the day is to provide a platform to open up for wider discussion some of the key ethical issues emerging for the arts and cultural sectors now.

At the heart of the event there is a desire to examine the sometimes uncomfortable relationships between arts and ethics with a view to exploring how, if or indeed should the arts be expected to be ethical.

The day will provide timely and provocative presentations as well as a range of panel discussions that will attempt to unpick the following themes and their
relationship with the arts:

• Profit and Value
• Public Space
• Human Rights and Human Goods
• Faith and Conflict

The event will be of interest to:,artists, academics, arts organisations, cultural practitioners and policy-making bodies.

Confirmed speakers include: Baroness Susan Greenfield • Jude Kelly (Artistic Director, Southbank Centre) • Dr Robert Beckford (Oxford Brookes University) • Zina Saro-Wiwa • Matthew Taylor (RSA) • Sir Richard Dalton • Professor Adam Arvidsson (University of Copenhagen) • Hasan Bakhshi (NESTA) • Jo Wilding • Matty Peacock (Streetwise Opera) • Dr Jonathan Holmes • Dan Gretton (Platform London) • Gary McKeone • Professor Ben Quash (King’s College London) • Professor Clemens Sedmak (King’s College London) • Rhonda Wilson (Rhubarb Rhubarb) • Jonzi D • Nigel Osborne • Gini Simpson ( Space Media Arts) • Michael Symmons Roberts • David Cotterrell • Sophie Hope

This list will be regularly updated.

To book please go to https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lcace/index.php

Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, cyberspace and science fiction conference, Oxford (1-3 July, 2008)

http://trans-disciplinary.net/ati/Visions/V3/cfp.html

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project aims to explore what it is to be human and the nature of human community in cyberculture, cyberspace and science fiction. In particular, the project will explore the possibilities offered by these contexts for creative thinking about persons and the challenges posed to the nature and future of national, international, and global communities.

Papers, short papers, and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes;

• the relationship between cyberculture, cyberspace, science fiction and the Machinima phenomenon
• science fiction and cyberpunk as a medium for exploring the nature of persons
• humans and cyborgs; the synergy of humans and technology; changing views of the body
• human and post-human politics; cyborg citizenship and rights; influence of political technologies
• bodies in cyberculture; from apes to androids – electronic evolution; biotechnical advances and the impact of life, death, and social existence; the impact on individuality
• gender and cyberspace: new feminisms, new masculinities
• electronic persons, community and identity; cyberspace, cybercommunities, virtual worlds, and home worlds
• nature, enhancing nature, and artificial intelligence; artificial life, life and information systems, networked living
• cyberpolitics, cyberdemocracy, cyberterror; old conflicts, new spaces: elections, protest and war in cyberspace; nationality and nationalism in cyberculture; the state and cyberspace: repression vs. resistance
• cyberpolitics, cybercultures and Serious Games (Documentary CGs)
• cybercultures: the transnational and the local
• boundaries, frontiers and taboos in cyberculture
• cyberculture and orientalism
• religion and spirituality in cyberculture, science fiction and cyberpunk
• old messages, new medium: cyberspace and mass communication
• cyberculture, cyberpunk and the near future: utopias vs. dystopias
• technology vs. the natural? cyberculture and the green movement
• the cultures of computer gaming

Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 15th February 2008. If your paper is accepted for presentation at the conference, an 8 page draft paper should be submitted by Friday 6th June 2008.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

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Edge Hill Station, Liverpool

Edge Hill Station, Liverpool

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Last Friday, I attended the opening of the Pavillion at Edge Hill Station, a new exhibition space in the oldest passenger railway station in the world.