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The more I use this lifestream, the more I love it. I have found it invaluable to store resources, and the weekly summary forces me to draw them all back in together again, like unpicking a tangled ball of wool! I have been using Tumblr to store interesting quotes from the reading as I go through [...] Silvana has left a comment in response to my previous blog entry Defining posthumans where she states that: “I think the key is the rejection of individualism which I think is central to a humanist view” This tied in neatly with some additional thoughts that I have been mulling over today, so I thought I would blog [...] I really wanted to get the concept of posthumans straight in my head, and the best way to do that is to blog it! Hayles defines the posthuman in the following manner: “First, the posthuman view privileges informational pattern over material instantiation, so that embodiment in a biological substrate is seen as an accident of history rather [...] Tonight I have had the immense pleasure of watching John Barrowman in La Cage Aux Folles in the west end – which I have to say was fab-u-lous! But on the train home I began thinking about the themes in the play and Lieve Gies reading that I have been working my way through. Gies discusses [...] I started week 9 reasonably well (adding more Haraway related videos from Youtube) but found myself petering out again as I struggled to come to terms with the Cyborg Manifesto. Perhaps, feeling like I was lost in words, I found myself turning back to the visual and rummaging around in visual representations of the cyborg. [...] I am still working my way through Lieve Gies “How Material are cyberbodies?” but felt the urge to reflect on one element of the piece that I have read so far. Gies quotes Jewkes and Sharp (2003) stating “when it comes to constructing identity, the line is increasingly blurred between “playful” and fraudulent, inclusive and exploitative, accesssible [...] |
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