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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Technology Is Changing Us -- Notes -- Chapter 1: The Robotization of Everything -- Notes -- Chapter 2: On Passing as Human and Robot Love -- Turing Tests -- Transhumanism: On Passing as Human -- Robo-Sex for Fun and Profit -- Unboxing the Future of Robot Sex -- Sense and Sensibility: The Robots We Have versus the Robots We (Might) Desire -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Who Is Responsible for a Self-Driving Car? -- Responsibility -- Emotion and Responsibility -- News That Controls the Story -- The Importance of Body for Ethical Decision Making and Responsibility -- Lessons from Prince Edward Island -- Afterthoughts: Is AI SF? -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Who's Your Mama? Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Meaning of Motherhood -- Introduction -- Are You My Mother? -- The State of the ART -- ART as Enabling Technology -- Case 1 -- Case 2 -- Case 3 -- Case 4 -- Who's Your Mama? -- Romanticizing Mothers and Motherhood -- On Maternal Thinking and Practice -- Maternal Practice and ART -- The Future: Children without Mothers? -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Screen Autism, Cell Phone Zombies, and GPS Mutes -- Surveillance -- Fake News and the Post-Truth Blues -- Orienting Ourselves in the World -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Technology in the Hands of Children: Helpful Tools or Harmful Distractions? -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Learning in an Age of Digital Distraction: Education versus Consumption -- A Bleak View of the New Normal Learning -- Education as Consumption -- Knowledge Isn't Like that -- Intentional Learning -- Notes -- Chapter 8: The Kids Are All Right: Lessons from the March for Our Lives -- Teenagers, Technology, and Technological Determinism -- The New Columbine -- #NeverAgain -- The March for Our Lives -- Backlash and Response -- The Kids are all Right -- Notes.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1 Foucault: Challenge and Misperceptions -- Necessary Scene-Setting -- Making a Start -- Notes -- 2 The Domains of Analysis -- The Three Domains -- Archaeology -- Notes -- 3 Genealogical Analytics -- A New Analytic or an Old Relativism? -- Notes -- 4 Making Subjects -- The Development of Political Technology -- The Book -- Power -- Defining Subjectivity -- Notes -- 5 The Manufacture of Knowledge -- The Will to Knowledge -- The History of Sexuality -- An Interim Recapitulation -- The Mechanics of the Will to Power -- Favored Perspective or Correct Account? -- Notes -- 6 The Faces of Truth -- The Criterial Notion of Truth -- The Constructivist Notion of Truth -- The Ρerspectivist Notion of Truth -- The Experiential Notion of Truth -- The Tacit-Realist Notion of Truth -- Summing Up -- Notes -- 7 Truth and the World -- The Specter of Irrealism -- Setting the World Aside -- Notes -- 8 Novel Construals and Cogency -- Innovative Visions and Periods -- Unifying Factors: History -- Unifying Factors: Subjectivity -- Cogency -- Notes -- Βibliography -- Index

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