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

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Author: Desiree Förster

Thinking machines and becoming bats - what are the pressing questions of the 21. Century?

Thinking machines and becoming bats – what are the pressing questions of the 21. Century?

November 11, 2016 Desiree Förster Assignment 5 One comment

The chosen artwork for this assignment takes an embodied approach to the question for the means of our mental and

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Mushishi – an anime to challenge the human unity

November 1, 2016 Desiree Förster Assignment 4 2 comments

Mushishi (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807832/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt ) is a japanese anime series. The mushi are a form of life that is neither plants nor

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Enhancement as becoming-other: The Jacobson’s Fabulous Olfactometer

Enhancement as becoming-other: The Jacobson’s Fabulous Olfactometer

October 25, 2016 Desiree Förster Assignment 3 3 comments

Enhancenment here is an adaptation to human induced climate changes (like air pollution) with help of nonhuman instinctive behavior, such as

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Entering the Uncanny Valley - a second earth under our feet.

Entering the Uncanny Valley – a second earth under our feet.

October 12, 2016 Desiree Förster Assignment 2 3 comments

The narrator of Edward Bulwer-Lyttons book “The Coming Race” enters an unknown and utopian world beneath the surface of the

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From the autonomous, humanist subject towards an environmental agency

From the autonomous, humanist subject towards an environmental agency

October 3, 2016 Desiree Förster Assignment 1 4 comments

The shift in thinking the human as an autonomous being towards an interface, as connected with its environment and the

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