Some of Joanna Zylinska’s work can be freely accessed via this website.


BIOETHICS

‘Bioethics Otherwise, or, How to Live with Machines, Humans, and Other Animals’, in Tom Cohen (ed.) Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, v. 1 (Open Humanities Press, 2012) [access via link, open access resource]

‘Preface’ and Ch 1 'Bioethics: Critical Introduction' from the book Bioethics in the Age of New Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009) [pdf downloads; c/o MIT Press]

Edited online book, BioethicsTM: Life, Politics, Economics , Living Books series (Open Humanities Press, 2011) [access via link, open access resource]

Article: ‘Playing God, Playing Adam: The Politics and Ethics of Enhancement’, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Vol. 7, No 2 (2010), pp. 149-161. [self-archived author’s manuscript; available on this website via a link]

Interview with Joanna Zylinska on bioethics - by philosopher and game designer Chris Bateman (September 2009). [available via a link to Chris Bateman's website]

Article: 'Of Swans and Ugly Ducklings: Bioethics between Humans, Animals and Machines', Reality Made Over, part II, special issue of the journal Configurations edited by Bernadette Wegenstein, Vol. 14 No 2 (Spring 2007), pp. 125-150. [pdf download; self-archived author’s manuscript]

 

MEDIA THEORY

'Life in the Battlefield of Vision': contribution to questionnaire on Image Wars set by Asbjørn Grønstad and Øyvind Vågnes of Nomadikon [scroll to the bottom of page to read my short essay]

Article (co-written with Sarah Kember): ‘Creative Media between Invention and Critique, or What's Still at Stake in Performativity?’, Culture Machine Vol. 11 (2011) [pdf download, open access resource]

 

ART AND CULTURE

Interview: ‘Probings: an Interview with Stelarc’ (with G. Hall), in The Cyborg Experiments: the Extensions of the Body in the Media Age, ed. Joanna Zylinska (London and New York: Continuum), pp. 114-130. [self-archived author’s manuscript; available here via a link]

Complete text of the monograph On Spiders, Cyborgs and Being Scared: the Feminine and the Sublime (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001) [pdf download; introduction available online] (NB This was my PhD, which was subsequently developed into a book. My thinking has developed and perhaps even changed to some degree since then - but the book does offer some archaeological traces of my ongoing interest in technology and ethics...)

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

'Language Games', catalogue essay (published in English and Mandarin) for the solo show of Ting Ting Cheng, ‘Object Fantasy’, at Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei (summer 2011) [self-archived author’s manuscript; available here via a link]

Image + text article: ‘I Don’t Go to the Movies’, Culture Machine, Vol. 11 (2011) [pdf download, open access resource]