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

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Author: Sebastian Edin

Niklas Luhmann's 'Social Systems'

Niklas Luhmann’s ‘Social Systems’

November 23, 2016 Sebastian Edin Assignment 6 3 comments

  The book Social Systems (originally printed under the title of Soziale Systeme: Grundriß einter allgemeinen Theorie in 1984) is

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AlphaGo and Computer Creativity

AlphaGo and Computer Creativity

November 14, 2016 Sebastian Edin Assignment 5 2 comments

  An important feature of a learning machine is that its teacher will often be very largely ignorant of quite

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The Techno-Deities of Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light"

The Techno-Deities of Roger Zelazny’s “Lord of Light”

November 1, 2016 Sebastian Edin Assignment 4 3 comments

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves

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Foucault on the 'Expression of Individuality'

Foucault on the ‘Expression of Individuality’

October 25, 2016 Sebastian Edin Assignment 3 4 comments

“We are used to thinking that the expression of individuality, for example, or the exaltation of individuality is one of

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Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Equilibrium of Power

Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Equilibrium of Power

October 17, 2016 Sebastian Edin Assignment 2 One comment

For this essay, I’d like to (due very much to the limitation to volume of text) focus on a very

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The Weather is too Predictable — Piscine bids an Ambivalent Welcome

The Weather is too Predictable — Piscine bids an Ambivalent Welcome

October 7, 2016 Sebastian Edin Assignment 1 2 comments

Reading Cary Wolfe’s seminal work “What is Posthumanism?”, a term you might come across on more than a couple handful

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