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Our new pedagogies may be uncanny but it was with a sigh of relief I returned to the familiar realm of education. The jaunt through cultural studies has been extremely interesting, but I was getting a little lost without a peg to hang it all on. It was the readings for this block (especially Bayne [...] I was getting quite frustrated with the readings on cyborgs and posthumans, not that they weren’t interesting, but they were so embedded in western ideas of self and being and what it is to human (and therefore cease to be human) that I was beginning to think that mandatory courses in Eastern philosophy might be [...] I prefer the term posthuman to cyborg. I think as the digital world we see today was emerging in the ’90s and early 00’s we misunderstood the effects of the relationship between ‘us’ and technology. Much of this misunderstanding was idealistic and hopeful – Haraway anticipated we would be cleansed of gender and bias for [...] Aimee Mullins was the guest editor for Gizmodo’s current theme This Cyborg Life. The weekly theme explored many areas, but stuck mainly with the focus on medical / physical prosthesis. I found it while looking for cyborg related content and have been following their updates avidly for the last week. What was interesting about Aimee [...] This week was taken up with recovering from my ethnographic experience and viewing those of others. Thus my lifestream got a bit neglected. Pity the hard work of ploughing through Haraway doesn’t show up on it. I have to admit reading this text, ironically, made me regret for the first time not having face to [...] |
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