Alexander Wilson’s video lecture is now online and available for watching on the Lesson 5-page, which also contains information on curriculum
Normality? Enhancement? An historical perspective
I think this famous figurine, Venus / Woman of Willendorf, made between 28000-25000 BCE, comments interestingly on posthuman notions of normality and
The Birth of the Unwanted Posthuman
The above still is the baby from Lynch’s movie with the fitting title “Eraserhead” (1977). The first scene is set on the
Orphan Black: Otherness and the Ethics of Science
Orphan Black is a series that deals with and explores the ethics and morality of human cloning. This is done
The Wind of Change
The children’s novel The Wind in the Willows from 1908 by Kenneth Grahame does not seem like a very obvious
An exclusionary humanity
In the Belgian cartoonist Hergés Tintin in the Congo (1931) Tintin is a reporter sent to the Belgian colony Congo to
“We pay taxes, we deserve basic civil rights” – The human/vampire division in True Blood
True Blood draws from the gothic genre to reflect on various social problems. The series brings the ancient figure of the
Human uncertainty
In the realm of fiction, there are many examples of a divided humanity and that point out to how fiction
A satirical recall regarding the humanistic visualization of unity
The wonderfully weird and wicked satirical TV-series Rick and Morty follows the far-out intergalactic adventures of rogue and borderline sociopathic genius Rick
The Techno-Deities of Roger Zelazny’s “Lord of Light”
Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves