From Subjects to Cyborgs

A seminar blog

Monatsarchiv für July 2016

(Almost) final words

It is not quite over yet – at least for some of you. I am still planning to write that post on that neurobiology article, but since some of you are already working on reworking your essays, I thought it best to give the details now. So here it goes: If you wish to receive […]

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Feedback time

There is still some things to come over the summer – and I promise another blogpost for next week. But before all of you go off on your summer work/travel/leisure I would very much appreciate an overall feedback, now that you have seen all we did this summer. Please follow this link and answer three […]

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Proposals are online

…here   And please not: FRIDAY will be a DOUBLE SESSION again – and we will have no session on the 22nd. There is no additional reading. Also, the venue has changed for this session. We will meet Garystr. 55/305.  

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Posthumanism and a crazy roboter guy

Now, that we have spent almost all semester on thinking about how we might think of subjects/selfs/humans beyond the liberal self there comes the final blow: Posthumanism. I have not done a lot of work myself on the subject and I admit to having been sidetracked. Basically, I got stuck finding out more about a […]

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The art of writing proposals

It sometimes feels like most of what is written in academia are proposals for funding – most of which propose research which never actually gets funded. Kind of weird, isn’t it? Empirically, proposals may not actually be the largest amount of text, but they clearly are important. More often than not, proposals decide if something […]

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