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

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Man’s superiority challenged – the second fall of man?

Man’s superiority challenged – the second fall of man?

October 17, 2016 Lars Juul-Madsen Assignment 2 One comment

Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s “The Coming Race” tells the story of a wealthy traveler who by accident ends in a subterranean world

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Angelic imagery of a posthuman species in "The Coming Race"

Angelic imagery of a posthuman species in “The Coming Race”

October 16, 2016 Claudia Bubke Assignment 2 2 comments

“Nor, on the other hand, do you seem to belong to any civilised people“, (Pos. 345) says one of the

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An inorganic future

An inorganic future

October 16, 2016 Mads Østergaard Johansen Assignment 2 2 comments

The title “The Coming Race” is a surprisingly paradoxical title. At one point it conveys the narrative’s interest in the

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The mutualistic symbiosis between posthuman and prosthesis

The mutualistic symbiosis between posthuman and prosthesis

October 13, 2016 Sofie Reimer-Walsted Assignment 2 3 comments

In Edward Bulwer- Lytton’s “The Coming Race” from 1871 it is made quite clear how the writer’s notion of the

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