The image below shows how my views have changed after the readings.

This is a reaction to a previous post, Tech in ‘modern times’ which contains vintage photos of the relationship between humans and technology. The photos are of white Western male adults.

In constrast, the above photo of an African mother and baby’s hands highlights the feminist critique of the liberal humanist view of technology which was often visualised with depictions of white European males. According to Hayles (1996), such images promoted a universality that subdued women’s voices.

In addition, the lack of a gadget, tool or prosthesis in the photo reflects my changing views that technology is part, not separate from being human. As between mother and child, this relationship is intimate and generative.

Image source
BBC News

Reference
Hayles, N. Katherine (1999) Towards embodied virtuality from Hayles, N. Katherine, How we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics pp.1-25, 293-297, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press.