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COVER -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME! -- HORRIBLE HORSEFLIES -- TICKS STUCK IN YOUR SKIN -- DON'T LET THE BEDBUGS BITE -- MIGHTY MITES -- GERMS AND BODY FUNGUS -- ITCHY FLEAS -- NASTY NITS AND HEAD LICE -- TAPEWORM ATTACK! -- MALARIA AND MOSQUITOES -- REALLY DISGUSTING FLIES -- BLOODSUCKING LEECHES -- FACE INVADERS -- GLOSSARY -- WEBSITES -- READ MORE -- INDEX -- BACK COVER

This article aims to do two things. The first of these is to introduce the concept of reflexive body techniques into the debate on body modification/maintenance. The value of the concept in relation to this debate, in part, is that it ensures that we conceive of the body as both a subject and an object, modifier and modified, and that we thereby avoid the trap of conceptualizing modification in dualistic (mind/body or body/society) terms. Second, the article seeks to explore the pattern of distribution of practices of modification (conceived as reflexive body techniques) through society and to reflect upon the potential usefulness of multi-dimensional scaling as a tool for doing this. This aim is related to the first aim as it is argued that the concept of reflexive body techniques serves to identify and anchor practices ofmodification in a way that is amenable to both quantitative and qualitative forms of analysis, as well as theoretical investigation.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Bodies, States and Body-States -- PART I: Bodies Modified and Divided -- 2 Female Circumcision vs. Designer Vaginas: Surgical Genital Practices and the Discursive Reproduction of State Boundaries -- 3 Hunger Strike: The Body as Resource -- 4 Organ Transplantation: The Debt of Life? -- PART II: Capital Bodies -- 5 The Body in Capitalist Conditions of Existence: A Foundational Materialist Approach -- 6 Money Bodies -- 7 Corporeal Capitalism: Invisible Male Bodies in the Global Sexual Economy -- 8 Asian Bodies/Western States (of Mind): A Postmodern Feminist Reading of Reproduction in East Asian Cultures -- PART III: Deviance and Resistance -- 9 Bodies of the State: On the Legal Entrenchment of (Dis)Ability -- 10 Unruly Bodies (Standing Against Apartheid) -- 11 Moments of Withdrawal: Homeschooling Mothers' Experiences of Taking Their Children Out of Mainstream Education -- 12 Greatest Treasures of the Pacific: Mlticultural Genders and HIV Prevention in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- PART IV: Sovereignty and Surveillance -- 13 Governing Mobile Bodies: Human Trafficking and (In)security States -- 14 The Smell of Power: A Contribution to the Critique of the Sniffer Dog -- 15 The Faceless Map: Banning the Cartographic Body -- PART V: The Body Virtual -- 16 Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, Cypherg -- 17 The Story of the 'I' -- 18 Act 3, Chapter 12, Authority -- Index.

AbstractA number of findings in the field of machine learning have given rise to questions about what it means for automated scoring- or decision-making systems to be fair. One center of gravity in this discussion is whether such systems ought to satisfy classification parity (which requires parity in predictive performance across groups, defined by protected attributes) or calibration (which requires similar predictions to have similar meanings across groups, defined by protected attributes). Central to this discussion are impossibility results, which show that classification parity and calibration are often incompatible. This paper aims to argue that classification parity, calibration, and a newer, interesting measure called counterfactual fairness are unsatisfactory measures of fairness, offer a general diagnosis of the failure of these measures, and sketch an alternative approach to understanding fairness in machine learning.

Thomas Hobbes once wrote that the body politic "is a fictitious body", thereby contrasting it with a natural body. In this essay I argue that a central purpose of Hobbes's political philosophy was to cast the fiction of the body politic upon the imaginations of his readers. I elucidate the role of the imagination in Hobbes's account of human nature, before examining two ways in which his political philosophy sought to transform the imaginations of his audience. The first involved effacing the false ideas that led to sedition by enlightening men from the kingdom of spiritual darkness. I thus advance an interpretation of Hobbes's eschatology focused upon his attempt to dislodge certain theological conceptions from the minds of men. The second involved replacing this religious imagery with the fiction of the body politic and the image of the mortal God, which, I argue, Hobbes developed in order to transform the way that men conceive of their relationship with the commonwealth. I conclude by adumbrating the implications of my reading for Hobbes's social contract theory and showing why the covenant that generates the commonwealth is best understood as imaginary.

"Tall. Short. Big. Small. Bodies come in all shapes and sizes. They change as you get older. Making healthy choices, exercising, and getting enough sleep will help you be the best version of yourself. You only have one body, and it's important to love the one you have"--

Examines how major social forces -- capital, technology, science, & markets -- "become embedded in the psychophysical nexus of individual human bodies so thoroughly that machinic performances become close to instinctual operations." A critical rereading is offered of machine technology in modern capitalist society to explore how the body, "as psyche & physique, mediates the machinic force of states (the body politic) & markets (the body shop)." As an exercise in "deep technology," the dynamics of bodies & bodybuilding are explored to reveal both corporal & ontological assumptions inherent in modern nation-states & markets. The creation of the "technified" body through the use of workout machines such as the Nordic Track/Nordic Flex is analyzed within the social, political, technical, & disciplinary machinations of the "global machine" of capitalism; relations of the individual body to the body shop & body politic are explored. The argument is framed with particular reference to the theories of Thomas Hobbes 1962), Adam Smith (1987), Donna Haraway (1991), Bruno Latour (1993), & William Greider (1996). 28 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

This article considers the ways we may regard the new public computer networks as "liberal machines." Although libertarian expectations of the Internet's potential as a technology of freedom are likely to be disappointed, digital communications networks remain the source of powerful but unrealized aspirations on the part of governments, "netizens," and international agencies. The tasks we assign to liberal government may be more complex in the new media environment, but they have not disappeared. New technologies are perceived as creating new problems for governments and citizens, but through the prism of information policy these same technologies are also seen as offering unprecedented new capacities for redressing perceived deficiencies in Western cultural and political communities. This article discusses the role of governments and international bodies in two key fields of information policy: the management of illegal or harmful material and the adaptation of intellectual property rights to digital networks.