Actor-Network-Theory starts from the assumption that all the ways in which we have hithereto understood actors – as natural, social or constructed – are inadequate in an age in which technology plays such an important role (Latour 1996). Instead, Latour and others have suggested to think of humans and things as networks – or associations […]
Monatsarchiv für June 2016
The cyborg as an imaginative resource
I have to admit, Donna Haraway‘s “Cyborg Manifesto” – despite its shortcomings – wows me every time I read it. I am not sure if it is the fact that this text – so eloquently describing changes that seems so very real today – was actually written in the 1980ies, when none of the things […]
Technology and the subject
Thank you all for voting for the texts we will read in our next three sessions. Sadly, Heidegger didn’t make the cut – he came third. This, however, gives posthumanism a chance, a topic I also look forward to. Interestingly, these choices address one of the improvements you suggested – more diversity. We could […]
The perks and perils of peer review
I would argue peer review is the central mechanism of subjectivation in academia – in and through participation in peer review one is created as an academic. The idea is quite simple really: by having one or two experts in the field review a text, an editor of a journal or a book evaluates the […]
The subject and technology
The semester progresses awfully quickly – we have now almost completed the second phase! This, of course, means that it is high time to decide what we will read in our last phase, which focuses on The subject and technology I have chosen this focus because I believe it covers an increasingly important aspect of […]
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