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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘cyborgs’
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 […]
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