In an effort to try and attach a small detour to the general posthuman road on which we have travelled far
Cyborgs breaking down boundaries -and building up new ones?
In the article ”I, Cyborg” Ellen Pearlman describes how Neil Harbisson by the use of a camera mounted on the
A Mesh of Life
In his essay from 2010, “Ecology after Capitalism”, Timothy Morton tries to invoke a new form of environmentalism and in
Animals and the Human Uniqueness
Following the lecture by Pernille Leth-Espensen, I would like to recommend Ursula K. Heise’s article “The Android and the Animal“
Transfiguration of the Commonplace
ๆพีรนกพั The ai-bot tutor for my most useless course, “A History of Sentient Ethics before Augmentation,” instructed us to v-scan
Mind-reading Utopia
Mind-reading, or mind-decrypting, is a prominent feature in many post-human scenarios, particularly the more science-fiction heavy postulates. From the symbols
Bioethics and the Posthumanist Imperative
Cary Wolfe, “Bioethics and the Posthumanist Imperative” (Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond, ed. Eduardo Kac, MIT Press, 2007)
A Theory of evolution for technology?
Hayler’s main project springs from something as mundane as the iPad. In his book he addresses the language we use
Making kin not babies
In “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Planatationoce, Chthulucene: Making Kin” Donna Haraway builds on her notions from “A cyborg Manifesto”. Focusing on the
Virtual Anthropology: omni-absence?
I have chosen to present a chapter from Jos de Mul’s book Cyberspace Odyssey: Towards a Virtual Onthology and Anthropolgy (Cambridge