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Summary Week 11
I have been concentrating on the essay and on editing the lifestream and these have taken me away from posting on the lifestream itself. The course has drawn to a close, in a way. There is no more reading. There are no more weekly introductions. As a result, it is difficult to know [...] Producer and Process
This is a little belated, but nonetheless sincere. The last week of the reading was focused on cyborg pedagogy (Angus, Cook, Evans et al, 2001; McWilliam and Palmer, 1995). Cyborg pedagogy with its three cornerstones of border pedagogy, cyborg ontology and situated knowledge takes us further down the line, across the continuum, of [...] Week 9 – flaneurs and cyborgs – cyborgs and flaneurs – both transgressors; both providing us with new ways to view the world and to be viewed in it. Both providing new worlds, maybe. I have recently had some comments on my posts- all of which were unashamedly requested. It was nice to get someone in [...] Cyborg?
I have just read the text by Shields (2006). The content about cyborgs was interesting. He seems to questioning the human representation of the cyborg, preferring “a virus, a ‘mote’ or ‘crumb’”. The mote and the crumb do not make sense to me, but I am quite taken with re-forming the cyborg as a [...]
This week has been about cyborgs. There have been cyborgs everywhere. Once I was able to cut through the visual imagery of the Terminator and Bladerunner, I found it much easier to think ‘cyborg’. Haraway (2000) and Hayles (1999, 2006) seem both to be saying that the cyborg can be used to think in new ways. [...] Does reliance on assistive software make us a cyborg? Is the use of distributed cognition, via this reliance, an example of ‘cyborgness’? If this is the case then if when school children or students are allowed to take calculators into exams, and rely on this technology in order to answer the questions (that is, they [...] This was an interesting choice of clip for the film festival. If you watch the director’s cut of Bladerunner, it is pretty clear that Deckard is also an android, he just doesn’t know it. Looking back at this post at the end of the course, it is clear how it links with the posthuman. If we [...] |
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