Assignment 1 – Posthuman Aesthetics

The language as scientific phenomenon – Ortega y Gasset

El teléfono, el motor de explosión y las perforadoras son descubrimientos prodigiosos, pero que hubieran sido imposibles si hace veinte

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This artistic representation of the posthuman is from the 1999 film The Matrix by the Watchowskis – a post-apocalyptic vision

Establishing a link between the posthuman and other theoretical frameworks that have sought to unsettle essentialist conceptions of the subject,

The film Ex Machina seems to ask important questions about what constitutes the human and, by extension, the posthuman.

Max Ernst may have called Une Semaine de Bonté (Week of kindness) a ‘Novel’, but to actually treat

My understanding of posthumanism draws from Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman 2013 and Cary Wolfe’s What is

In the comic book Watchmen a character is asked, what he feels about the death of a close friend. The

The question of criteria in the service of defining the post human does not resonate with the idea of the

I thought it would be interesting to see if posthuman theory would apply to a poet such as Tranströmer. My

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