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 ‘technology’
The thing about doors
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 […]
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 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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