In ”SOMA” we are encountered with the dilemmas of human consciousness and robotic embodiment. The game is set in a
Category: Assignment 5
Virtual Phenomenology: In The Eyes of The Animal
Insofar one assumes that: “an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is
Cyborg Art – Convergence and Disembodiment
In the artwork of Tina LaPorta, Future Body, from 1999, we see a woman body presented as a computer grid.
Becoming Bat, becoming Woman – discursive-material matterings of the world
Nagel (1974) takes for granted a gap between subject and object, between mind and body. He considers the mental ‘in
The Resurgence of Monism and its impact on post-human thought
In his piece ”Expectations”, Lucio Fontana neatly represents a line of thought fitting with the theories of Chalmers’ Pan(proto)psychism/Russellian Monism,
What Does It Take to Learn Kung Fu?
I know we’re supposed to write about something that hasn’t come up in the lectures and readings. But I really
Hard-Boiled Wonderland & The End Of The World
“The further we traveled in the darkness, the more I began to feel estranged from my body. I couldn’t see
The Posthumanist Art of Embodiment
https://www.facebook.com/evatiamatmedusa/?ref=nf Meet Eva Baphomet Tiamat Legion Medusa. It (preferred pronoun) recently made news for removing its external ears and nose
What is it Like to be a Drone Adrift?
The still is taken from Nolan’s “Interstellar” (2014). The sci-fi movie proposes a peculiar question in the case of the
Cow Empathy
I would propose that the very fact that humans a able to empathize is proves that humans are not reducible