Prelims
The Swedish Microchipping Phenomenon
ISBN: 978-1-78973-358-7, eISBN: 978-1-78973-357-0
Publication date: 16 September 2019
Citation
Petersén, M. (2019), "Prelims", The Swedish Microchipping Phenomenon, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-viii. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-355-620191003
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Copyright © 2019, Moa Petersén
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THE SWEDISH MICROCHIPPING PHENOMENON
Title Page
THE SWEDISH MICROCHIPPING PHENOMENON
MOA PETERSÉN
Lund University, Sweden
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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Contents
| About the Author | vii | |
| Acknowledgments | viii | |
| Introduction | 1 | |
| (1) | When the Chips Came to Sweden | 11 |
| The Basement | 11 | |
| The Struggle within Swedish Biohacking | 13 | |
| Media Coverage and the Chips as Business | 18 | |
| (2) | Sweden and Technology | 25 |
| Unicorns and Swedish Values | 25 | |
| The Wild West and Trust | 30 | |
| Agility and Speed | 35 | |
| (3) | Chipped Swedes | 41 |
| Who Chips Themself? | 42 | |
| Surveillance and the Ideas on a Future for Human Chip Implants | 45 | |
| Science Fiction as Reality and Biological Bodies | 55 | |
| Transhumanism (H+) | 63 | |
| Concluding Discussion | 75 | |
| References | 79 | |
| Index | 93 | |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Moa Petersén is Associate Professor in Digital Cultures at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University. Since her doctoral thesis “Impure Vision: American Staged Art Photography of the 1970s” was published in 2013, she has written several articles and book chapters on the human–technology/nature relation including “Human–Technology Relationships in the Digital Age : The Collapse of Metaphor in Biohacking.” In Agard, J., et al. (2018), Postphenomenological Methodologies – New Ways in Mediating Techno–Human Relationships, Lexington Books.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I want to thank Jesper Meijling, Ingrid Dunér, Robert Willim, Jutta Haider, Ulf Zander, Kristofer Hansson, and Kristian Petersén for giving me much appreciated feedback, tips, and support during this research process.