Cyborg – Posthuman Aesthetics

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

(Bostrom, 2009, p. 20) Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Coming Race (1871), is set in an Utopian underground world discovered by a

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

In the exploration of the posthuman it becomes increasingly clear to which extent we as humanity are clawing to our

In the Japanese post-apocalyptic animation series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) set in futuristic Tokyo, humanity is systematically attacked by an

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

”The challenge is to show you that she is a robot, and then see if you still feel she has

An example which I believe raises pertinent issues to our investigation of the posthuman is the cyborg stingray created by

The posthuman is often characterized by prosthetics and cyborgism, drawing inspiration from science fiction in forming the image of what