{"id":10,"date":"2020-07-23T16:05:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/science-arts-design\/?p=10"},"modified":"2020-07-23T17:57:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T16:57:54","slug":"bodies-post-human-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/science-arts-design\/2020\/07\/23\/bodies-post-human-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Deus Ex: Bodies & Post-Human Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deus Ex: Medical Revolution<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Tomas Rawlings<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Originally written in September 2011<\/h4>\n

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A game with a fusion of ideas – from William Gibson’s Neuromancer ideas of cyberpunk, age-old conspiracy theories, global pandemics, dystopia futures, as well as the upheaval of rapid technology development.<\/em><\/h4>\n

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If, like me, you’re a gamer then you probably already know of the release of the hugely anticipated action game ‘Deus Ex: Human Revolution<\/u><\/a>‘<\/u>. If you’re not quite so geeky then let me introduce it; the game is a follow on (a prequel to be exact) to one of the most highly rated video games of the last 20 years. Both games are a fusion of ideas – from the cyberpunk ideas of William Gibson’s Neuromancer<\/u><\/a>, age-old conspiracy theories, global pandemics, dystopia futures and the upheaval of rapid technology development. The original game<\/u><\/a> received huge praise for the depth of its story-telling and the excellent game design that meant problems could be solved by other means than combat, such as stealth or dialogue. The original game featured a number of biomedical narrative themes – a deadly virus called ‘Gray Death’ that had ravished the human population and short global supplies of the vaccine that fights it. But crucial to both the gameplay and the story was the idea of nanotechnologically-augmented human beings. This idea of transhumanism<\/u><\/a> – of the technological ‘hows’ and the ethical ‘whys’ of augmenting the human body in ways far beyond that which our genetic inheritances has endowed us, are also critical elements of the current game. Here’s the game trailer for Deus Ex: Human Revolution:<\/p>\n