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Week 7: PHP1| Agents, Avatars, Cyborgs

Week 7 Lab : PHP

PHP Intro

Week 7 Assignment

The assignment for this week sounds simple, but it is not -- create a PHP page (or more than one) that works. This page (or pages) should include an "if" statement, a "while" loop and a user-defined function. If this assignment happens to be extremely easy for you, try to use the ideas in perhaps a little more creative way.

Week 7 Discussion : Agents, Avatars, Cyborgs

Cyborgs are hacking into the intellectual mainframe. They have taken over cultural studies, established a colony in the English department, and -- wet circuits glistening -- started to invade anthropology. (The media-studies people never had a chance.) Intimate couplings of flesh and technology, cyborgs dismantle old ideas about "nature" and "culture," "man" and "machine," scrambling them together in encrypted patterns that can scarcely be imagined by "humans" -- to use another terribly old-fashioned word ...
SCOTT McLEMEE

What does "the body" mean in an era of virtual communication and cyberspace?

A Cyborg Manifesto Donna Harraway

A Cyborg Manifesto in comic book form

Stelarc

Marcel.li Antunez Roca, Epizoo

Stahl Senslie

Bodies©INCorporated

DARPA Virtual Soldier

Digital Humans at the University of Iowa

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