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

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Author: Claudia Bubke

Animals and the Human Uniqueness

Animals and the Human Uniqueness

November 23, 2016 Claudia Bubke Assignment 6 One comment

Following the lecture by Pernille Leth-Espensen, I would like to recommend Ursula K. Heise’s article “The Android and the Animal“

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"We pay taxes, we deserve basic civil rights" - The human/vampire division in True Blood

“We pay taxes, we deserve basic civil rights” – The human/vampire division in True Blood

November 1, 2016 Claudia Bubke Assignment 4 4 comments

True Blood draws from the gothic genre to reflect on various social problems. The series brings the ancient figure of the

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Photoshopping Normality: Retouching imperfections or redefining the norm?

Photoshopping Normality: Retouching imperfections or redefining the norm?

October 25, 2016 Claudia Bubke Assignment 3 2 comments

Photography is undoubtedly not an art that aims for exact copies of reality. Yet, where does the simple photoshopped correction

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Angelic imagery of a posthuman species in "The Coming Race"

Angelic imagery of a posthuman species in “The Coming Race”

October 16, 2016 Claudia Bubke Assignment 2 2 comments

“Nor, on the other hand, do you seem to belong to any civilised people“, (Pos. 345) says one of the

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Transcendence: A utopian or a dystopian view into a posthuman future?

Transcendence: A utopian or a dystopian view into a posthuman future?

October 6, 2016 Claudia Bubke Assignment 1 3 comments

Despite  Herbrechter’s negation of “transcendence” (2013:3), the film Transcendence could still be an example of the posthuman concept. As a

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