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Brian O'Doherty's "Inside the White Cube. The Ideology of the Gallery Space"

Brian O’Doherty’s “Inside the White Cube. The Ideology of the Gallery Space”

November 21, 2016 Lara Eva Sochor Assignment 6 2 comments

  An interesting book in context to this week’s lecture – but also probably posthuman aesthethics overall – is Brian

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(Mis)communication in "I like America and America Likes Me"

(Mis)communication in “I like America and America Likes Me”

November 14, 2016 Lara Eva Sochor Assignment 5 One comment

In Joseph Beuys’ performance “I Like America And America Likes me” took place in 1974 at the Soho art gallery

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Thinking machines and becoming bats - what are the pressing questions of the 21. Century?

Thinking machines and becoming bats – what are the pressing questions of the 21. Century?

November 11, 2016 Desiree Förster Assignment 5 One comment

The chosen artwork for this assignment takes an embodied approach to the question for the means of our mental and

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Enhancement as becoming-other: The Jacobson’s Fabulous Olfactometer

Enhancement as becoming-other: The Jacobson’s Fabulous Olfactometer

October 25, 2016 Desiree Förster Assignment 3 3 comments

Enhancenment here is an adaptation to human induced climate changes (like air pollution) with help of nonhuman instinctive behavior, such as

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Posthuman Presence in Une Semaine de Bonté - A Surrealistic Novel in Collage by Max Ernst

Posthuman Presence in Une Semaine de Bonté – A Surrealistic Novel in Collage by Max Ernst

October 7, 2016 Lara Eva Sochor Assignment 1 2 comments

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

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Atlantis and the finitude of the human

Atlantis and the finitude of the human

October 7, 2016 Felicity Picken Assignment 1 One comment

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

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What does colour sound like? Neil Harbisson posthuman art

What does colour sound like? Neil Harbisson posthuman art

October 7, 2016 Marinela Freitas Assignment 1 Leave a comment

Neil Harbisson is a Catalan-raised, British-born artist who suffers from a rare form of colour blindness called achromatopsia, which means

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Symbiotic inter-dependence and agency in becoming Posthuman

Symbiotic inter-dependence and agency in becoming Posthuman

October 7, 2016 Laura Benítez Valero Assignment 1 One comment

  I have not yet the resources to identify which are the criteria that defines the Posthuman, probably because would

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Anthropocentric post-humanism? and the Atom Spirit

Anthropocentric post-humanism? and the Atom Spirit

October 2, 2016 Honey Beckerlee Assignment 1 5 comments

I wanted to post a question in response to the lecture, but did not have such an option. Therefor I

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Juan Miró: The Posthuman Art of the Post-war Spain

Juan Miró: The Posthuman Art of the Post-war Spain

September 28, 2016 Jelica Veljovic Assignment 1 2 comments

It is possible to discuss about posthumanist tendencies in the work of Juan Miró, surrealist and avantguarde spanish painter and

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