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Ethics and Aesthetics of the Posthuman Condition – An Open Online Course

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Thinking Like a Replicant

Thinking Like a Replicant

November 14, 2016 Kristian Abildgaard Kragh Assignment 5 One comment

In the movie Blade Runner from 1982 a special interrogating technic is employed to determine whether someone is a human

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The Shame of Enhancement

The Shame of Enhancement

October 25, 2016 Mads Østergaard Johansen Assignment 3 2 comments

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) is a rather obscure take on enhancement. Tetsuo, a typical salary man accidentally kills ‘the

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Ex Machina and the Posthuman

Ex Machina and the Posthuman

October 8, 2016 David Magill Assignment 1 3 comments

  The film Ex Machina seems to ask important questions about what constitutes the human and, by extension, the posthuman.

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Autonomous Drones and Film- In the Robot Skies: A drone Love Story

Autonomous Drones and Film- In the Robot Skies: A drone Love Story

October 7, 2016 Elizabeth Lara Assignment 1 Leave a comment

IN THE ROBOT SKIES TEASER from liam young on Vimeo. According to the description of this film teaser, In the

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Transcendence: A utopian or a dystopian view into a posthuman future?

Transcendence: A utopian or a dystopian view into a posthuman future?

October 6, 2016 Claudia Bubke Assignment 1 3 comments

Despite  Herbrechter’s negation of “transcendence” (2013:3), the film Transcendence could still be an example of the posthuman concept. As a

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