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An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology is a Companion to the book A Complete Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology, by Amber Case and Maggie Nichols.

Cyborg Anthropology is a way of understanding how we live as technosocially connected citizens in the modern era. Our cell phones, cars and laptops have turned us into cyborgs. What does it mean to extend the body into hyperspace? What are the implications to privacy, information and the formation of identity? Now that we have a second self, how do we protect it?

A post examining the mini-singularity we're experiencing as we simultaneously read tweets about the death of a celebrity, an earthquake or the World Cup. It takes a different approach to the idea of a technological singularity by proposing that there will not be one large Singularity but rather a series of smaller micro-singularity events in which we all experience the same topic of subject for a brief period of time.