Cyborgs, cyberspace, cybersexuality: The evolution of everyday creativity.

Abstract

Improvisation is acceptance, in a single breath, of both transience and eternity.-S. NachmanovichEveryday creativity lives at the fractal interface of the individual and culture. Modern modes of communication, technology, and globalization are increasing the complexity of that interface and the pace of its evolution. It could prove important to evaluate the implications some trends and possibilities within that interface have for the evolution of human nature and everyday creativity.Advances in science and technology drive much of this evolution. Some of these advances are in computer systems (cyberspace); some are in the hybridization of the human body with robotics (cyborgs); and some are in communications, artificial intelligence, cloning, genetic manipulation, stem cell ontogenetic manipulation (which can now make it possible to eliminate the male from reproductive participation), pharmaceutical and molecular manipulation, nanotechnology, and so on. This evolution of society and self influences the programs of emancipation suggested by postmodern social theory and philosophical hermeneutics. Cybersexuality-a 241

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