In the article ”I, Cyborg” Ellen Pearlman describes how Neil Harbisson by the use of a camera mounted on the
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The Coming of the Future of Humanity
(Bostrom, 2009, p. 20) Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Coming Race (1871), is set in an Utopian underground world discovered by a
‘Ethno-cyborgs’: The Posthuman Performance of Guillermo Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra
Establishing a link between the posthuman and other theoretical frameworks that have sought to unsettle essentialist conceptions of the subject,
A matter of leaving matter behind?
In the exploration of the posthuman it becomes increasingly clear to which extent we as humanity are clawing to our
THE FRAGILE HERO: UNDERMINING THE ANTHROPOCENTRIC IDEOLOGY
In the Japanese post-apocalyptic animation series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) set in futuristic Tokyo, humanity is systematically attacked by an
What does colour sound like? Neil Harbisson posthuman art
Neil Harbisson is a Catalan-raised, British-born artist who suffers from a rare form of colour blindness called achromatopsia, which means
What makes us human?
”The challenge is to show you that she is a robot, and then see if you still feel she has
Biomachinery: Between Animate and Abiotic
An example which I believe raises pertinent issues to our investigation of the posthuman is the cyborg stingray created by
Who is a Cyborg?
The posthuman is often characterized by prosthetics and cyborgism, drawing inspiration from science fiction in forming the image of what