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Ethics and Aesthetics of the Posthuman Condition – An Open Online Course

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Author: Frederik Thielke Mølgaard

The Extended Mind

The Extended Mind

November 24, 2016 Frederik Thielke Mølgaard Assignment 6 4 comments

For this week’s assignment I’ve chosen to recommend Andy Clark and David J. Chalmer’s  paper: The Extended Mind. The paper

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Virtual Phenomenology: In The Eyes of The Animal

Virtual Phenomenology: In The Eyes of The Animal

November 14, 2016 Frederik Thielke Mølgaard Assignment 5 One comment

Insofar one assumes that: “an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is

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BioShock: The Rise and Fall of an Underwater Utopia

BioShock: The Rise and Fall of an Underwater Utopia

November 1, 2016 Frederik Thielke Mølgaard Assignment 4 4 comments

BioShock is a video game that tells the story of the underwater, super-human city of Rapture that undergoes the transformation

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A Goat's State of Mind

A Goat’s State of Mind

October 24, 2016 Frederik Thielke Mølgaard Assignment 3 3 comments

Thomas Thwaiter’s project A holiday from being human (GoatMan), exemplifies a distinct investigation on normality where technological enhancement aids the

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Pre-Post-Human

Pre-Post-Human

October 16, 2016 Frederik Thielke Mølgaard Assignment 2 Leave a comment

In Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race (1871), we are presented our narrator, an unnamed traveller, who, after a descent into

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Speculating Anthropocentric Agency
 In Robots

Speculating Anthropocentric Agency
 In Robots

October 5, 2016 Frederik Thielke Mølgaard Assignment 1 4 comments

The consequences of technology is a central topic in the discussion concerning the posthuman, and I propose that critical design

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