Chris Hables Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 81905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Hables Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris Hables |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY C H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2247-228X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Covid-19 Conspiracies
Review, Conspiracy Theories in the Time of COVID-19 by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight
AI, Sacred Violence, and War—The Case of Gaza
This chapter is an introduction to the themes and issues of the book.It begins with a description of Israel's attack on Gaza 2023-2024 and how it is a form of torture, tactically and strategically.The relationship between military policies and operational practices is explained.A quick and dirty history of actual military AI systems from Aegis to Titan follows.Then there is a gloss on the content of the following four chapters.Why understanding t…
Virus Is a Language
To understand 2020’s pandemic is to see virus as a language we can use. By drawing on viral principles—viruses are infections through information, viruses can be understood only through percentages and exponentials, and viruses are zombies from outer space—the dynamics of our twenty-first-century virus crisis can be discerned, even influenced. The crisis isn't just biological, it is about ideas and how they propagate through, for example, conspir…
Drones, War, and Technological Seduction
Drones, War, and Technological Seduction Chris Hables Gray (bio) Madea Benjamin, Drone Warfare; Hugh Gusterson, Drone; Ian G. R. Shaw, Predator Empire; Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan, eds., Life in the Age of Drone Warfare; Kevin Howley, Drones "A drone isn't just a tool: when you use it you see and act through it—you inhabit it. It expands the reach of your body and senses in much the same way the internet expands your mind. The net extends our vir…
Post- sapiens
The proliferation of terms used to talk about the near human future has not been matched by a growing precision in their use. This has led to a human identity crisis. The origins and politics of some key terms (human, Homo sapiens sapiens, posthuman, transhuman, robot, drone, and cyborg) and how these factors impact their usefulness are discussed and critiqued. Evolutionary biology is the starting place for a clear criterion for choosing our term…
Agency, (Re)Invention, and the Internet
Information is ‘a difference that makes a difference’, Gregory Bateson observed. The same goes for theory. It is remarkable how much of the high theory in academia, even about real things, is usele
Social Media in Conflict
There are important differences in how information technology is used in military and social-movement cultures. Militaries use social media in the Human Terrain model and security-police mode for quantifying and controlling social space, in order to meet low-intensity, counterinsurgency, and regime-maintenance goals (or for recruitment and public relations). For social-movement cultures, such as secular Egyptian revolutionaries, 15M (Los Indignad…
Postmodern War at Peak Empire
An SF [Special Forces] guy has to be a lethal killer one moment and a humanitarian the next. He has to know how to get strangers who speak another language to do things for him. (Maj. Gen. Sidney S
Consciousness Studies
Consciousness studies is not just an academic field, it is an industry as well with active research programs in medicine, business, and the military. As advancements in technology offer more access to the brain, attempts to instrumentalize the resulting knowledge will shift the very definitions of consciousness. Consciousness of this process is a necessary first condition toward keeping consciousness studies from becoming merely a form of social …
Posthuman Soldiers in Postmodern War
The centrality of human-machine weapon systems is a key aspect of postmodern war. Since 1939 such systems have proliferated while improved interfaces have led to several types of actual cyborg soldiers. As the crisis of postmodern war deepens it is producing a series of quite different militarized bodies. Cyborgs proliferate in type so it is no surprise that we have pilot-cyborgs and teleoperators, info-cyborgs (from political operatives to clerk…
Man Plus
Cyborg Citizen
The growing synergy of humans and technology--from dialysis to genetically altered foods to PET scans--is transforming how we view our minds and our bodies. But how has it changed the body politic? How can we forge a society that protects the rights of human and cyborg alike?The creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook, Chris Hables Gray, now offers the first guide to "posthuman" politics, framing the key issues that could threaten or brighten…
Reimaging Field Instruction from a Spiritually Sensitive Perspective
No longer can we tell whether it is the offering himself to the teacher or the teacher offering herself to the student. We see each of the two beings mirroring the other in pure reflection. - Huang & Lynch, 1995, p. 4 As we come to the end of the 20th century and celebrate 100 years of social work, we take this opportunity to reflect on how we train, supervise, mentor, and teach beginning professionals. Students come to the profession of social w…
Postmodern War
Technohistory
The game of science
There Will Be War!”
The longstanding relationship between technological fantasies and American military culture and policy, well chronicled up to the Vietnam War in the work of H. Bruce Franklin, has developed even further in the last twenty years. The significant “future war” subculture within sf and the techno-thriller genre share a surprising number of participants, metaphors, and ideological positions with the command, planning, and R&D subsections of the US mil…
Author’s Inquiry
What's Real About Virtual Reality
The Strategic Computing Program at four years
Cyborg Citizen
The growing synergy of humans and technology--from dialysis to genetically altered foods to PET scans--is transforming how we view our minds and our bodies. But how has it changed the body politic? How can we forge a society that protects the rights of human and cyborg alike?The creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook, Chris Hables Gray, now offers the first guide to "posthuman" politics, framing the key issues that could threaten or brighten…
What's Real About Virtual Reality
Reimaging Field Instruction from a Spiritually Sensitive Perspective
No longer can we tell whether it is the offering himself to the teacher or the teacher offering herself to the student. We see each of the two beings mirroring the other in pure reflection. - Huang & Lynch, 1995, p. 4 As we come to the end of the 20th century and celebrate 100 years of social work, we take this opportunity to reflect on how we train, supervise, mentor, and teach beginning professionals. Students come to the profession of social w…
Posthuman Soldiers in Postmodern War
The centrality of human-machine weapon systems is a key aspect of postmodern war. Since 1939 such systems have proliferated while improved interfaces have led to several types of actual cyborg soldiers. As the crisis of postmodern war deepens it is producing a series of quite different militarized bodies. Cyborgs proliferate in type so it is no surprise that we have pilot-cyborgs and teleoperators, info-cyborgs (from political operatives to clerk…
Man Plus
Virus Is a Language
To understand 2020’s pandemic is to see virus as a language we can use. By drawing on viral principles—viruses are infections through information, viruses can be understood only through percentages and exponentials, and viruses are zombies from outer space—the dynamics of our twenty-first-century virus crisis can be discerned, even influenced. The crisis isn't just biological, it is about ideas and how they propagate through, for example, conspir…
Social Media in Conflict
There are important differences in how information technology is used in military and social-movement cultures. Militaries use social media in the Human Terrain model and security-police mode for quantifying and controlling social space, in order to meet low-intensity, counterinsurgency, and regime-maintenance goals (or for recruitment and public relations). For social-movement cultures, such as secular Egyptian revolutionaries, 15M (Los Indignad…
Consciousness Studies
Consciousness studies is not just an academic field, it is an industry as well with active research programs in medicine, business, and the military. As advancements in technology offer more access to the brain, attempts to instrumentalize the resulting knowledge will shift the very definitions of consciousness. Consciousness of this process is a necessary first condition toward keeping consciousness studies from becoming merely a form of social …
Post- sapiens
The proliferation of terms used to talk about the near human future has not been matched by a growing precision in their use. This has led to a human identity crisis. The origins and politics of some key terms (human, Homo sapiens sapiens, posthuman, transhuman, robot, drone, and cyborg) and how these factors impact their usefulness are discussed and critiqued. Evolutionary biology is the starting place for a clear criterion for choosing our term…
The Strategic Computing Program at four years
Author’s Inquiry
What's Real About Virtual Reality
There Will Be War!”
The longstanding relationship between technological fantasies and American military culture and policy, well chronicled up to the Vietnam War in the work of H. Bruce Franklin, has developed even further in the last twenty years. The significant “future war” subculture within sf and the techno-thriller genre share a surprising number of participants, metaphors, and ideological positions with the command, planning, and R&D subsections of the US mil…
The game of science
Postmodern War
Technohistory
Reimaging Field Instruction from a Spiritually Sensitive Perspective
No longer can we tell whether it is the offering himself to the teacher or the teacher offering herself to the student. We see each of the two beings mirroring the other in pure reflection. - Huang & Lynch, 1995, p. 4 As we come to the end of the 20th century and celebrate 100 years of social work, we take this opportunity to reflect on how we train, supervise, mentor, and teach beginning professionals. Students come to the profession of social w…
Man Plus
Cyborg Citizen
The growing synergy of humans and technology--from dialysis to genetically altered foods to PET scans--is transforming how we view our minds and our bodies. But how has it changed the body politic? How can we forge a society that protects the rights of human and cyborg alike?The creator of the cult classic Cyborg Handbook, Chris Hables Gray, now offers the first guide to "posthuman" politics, framing the key issues that could threaten or brighten…
Posthuman Soldiers in Postmodern War
The centrality of human-machine weapon systems is a key aspect of postmodern war. Since 1939 such systems have proliferated while improved interfaces have led to several types of actual cyborg soldiers. As the crisis of postmodern war deepens it is producing a series of quite different militarized bodies. Cyborgs proliferate in type so it is no surprise that we have pilot-cyborgs and teleoperators, info-cyborgs (from political operatives to clerk…
Postmodern War at Peak Empire
An SF [Special Forces] guy has to be a lethal killer one moment and a humanitarian the next. He has to know how to get strangers who speak another language to do things for him. (Maj. Gen. Sidney S
Consciousness Studies
Consciousness studies is not just an academic field, it is an industry as well with active research programs in medicine, business, and the military. As advancements in technology offer more access to the brain, attempts to instrumentalize the resulting knowledge will shift the very definitions of consciousness. Consciousness of this process is a necessary first condition toward keeping consciousness studies from becoming merely a form of social …
Agency, (Re)Invention, and the Internet
Information is ‘a difference that makes a difference’, Gregory Bateson observed. The same goes for theory. It is remarkable how much of the high theory in academia, even about real things, is usele
Social Media in Conflict
There are important differences in how information technology is used in military and social-movement cultures. Militaries use social media in the Human Terrain model and security-police mode for quantifying and controlling social space, in order to meet low-intensity, counterinsurgency, and regime-maintenance goals (or for recruitment and public relations). For social-movement cultures, such as secular Egyptian revolutionaries, 15M (Los Indignad…
Post- sapiens
The proliferation of terms used to talk about the near human future has not been matched by a growing precision in their use. This has led to a human identity crisis. The origins and politics of some key terms (human, Homo sapiens sapiens, posthuman, transhuman, robot, drone, and cyborg) and how these factors impact their usefulness are discussed and critiqued. Evolutionary biology is the starting place for a clear criterion for choosing our term…
Drones, War, and Technological Seduction
Drones, War, and Technological Seduction Chris Hables Gray (bio) Madea Benjamin, Drone Warfare; Hugh Gusterson, Drone; Ian G. R. Shaw, Predator Empire; Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan, eds., Life in the Age of Drone Warfare; Kevin Howley, Drones "A drone isn't just a tool: when you use it you see and act through it—you inhabit it. It expands the reach of your body and senses in much the same way the internet expands your mind. The net extends our vir…
Virus Is a Language
To understand 2020’s pandemic is to see virus as a language we can use. By drawing on viral principles—viruses are infections through information, viruses can be understood only through percentages and exponentials, and viruses are zombies from outer space—the dynamics of our twenty-first-century virus crisis can be discerned, even influenced. The crisis isn't just biological, it is about ideas and how they propagate through, for example, conspir…
Covid-19 Conspiracies
Review, Conspiracy Theories in the Time of COVID-19 by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight
AI, Sacred Violence, and War—The Case of Gaza
This chapter is an introduction to the themes and issues of the book.It begins with a description of Israel's attack on Gaza 2023-2024 and how it is a form of torture, tactically and strategically.The relationship between military policies and operational practices is explained.A quick and dirty history of actual military AI systems from Aegis to Titan follows.Then there is a gloss on the content of the following four chapters.Why understanding t…
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