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

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Author: Leon Human

Transfiguration of the Commonplace

Transfiguration of the Commonplace

November 23, 2016 Leon Human Assignment 6 Leave a comment

ๆพีรนกพั The ai-bot tutor for my most useless course, “A History of Sentient Ethics before Augmentation,”  instructed us to v-scan

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The Spirit is a Bone: A Fable with Three Footnotes

The Spirit is a Bone: A Fable with Three Footnotes

November 10, 2016 Leon Human Assignment 5 2 comments

Once upon a time, pious dualist intuitions went very deep, and a child’s mini-me was a mini-Descartes, and humans all

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The Lobster: To be single is to be beastly

The Lobster: To be single is to be beastly

October 31, 2016 Leon Human Assignment 4 4 comments

In The Lobster1, director Yorgos Lanthimos presents an surreal futuristic dystopia2 where the division in human unity runs through coupledom

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Lo and Behold: Saartjie Baartman qua Hottentot Venus

Lo and Behold: Saartjie Baartman qua Hottentot Venus

October 23, 2016 Leon Human Assignment 3 3 comments

“The Hottentot Venus – just arrived…from the banks of the river Gamtoos, on the borders of Kaffraria, in the interior

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Apes from Utopia: Animalization & Humiliation

Apes from Utopia: Animalization & Humiliation

October 17, 2016 Leon Human Assignment 2 4 comments

Slogging through the turgid prose of The Coming Race, one is struck by the fact that the Narrator most often

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Art in Animalface

Art in Animalface

October 7, 2016 Leon Human Assignment 1 4 comments

As the self-described slayer of dualisms, posthumanism is rumoured to destabilize venerable dichotomies like human/animal & mind/body. Bio-art can perhaps

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