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Critical posthumanast view

Reading through the Bayne paper “What’s the matter with ‘technology-enhanced learning’?, I came upon an interesting critical posthumanist view of the relationship between technology and education, one which I certainly agree with and try to advocate within my own practice; A critical posthumanist position on technology and education would see the human neither as dominating technology nor as being dominated by… Read more →

Week 2 Lifestream summary

This week I have engaged in various different posthumanism debates partiulary around Cyber-punk culture ideologies and digital memories.  After a Monday evening screening of Blade Runner, I was able to identify what constitutes Cuber-punk and how it is seen within different texts.  Is the narritive always dystopian or is there room for a utopian elemant, and is there room between the two to create a… Read more →

Comment on Digital Memory – initial thoughts by jdarling

There was a recent book review in the Guardian (http://ift.tt/1y6g6Jc) that touched on this. Assuming that our memory can be ‘trained’, and a quick search on Google Scholar supports this hypothesis, then I agree with you that our memory capacity is suffering. But, is this a bad thing if we are able to enhance an ability through technology? Or, thinking… Read more →

Digital Memory – initial thoughts

After considering discussions around digital memory in texts such as Blade Runner and Gumdrop, I wonder how the wealth of digital recording devices in modern times gives us the opportunity to store our memories in digital format allowing us to recall them at any time.  Having libraries of videos and images from our past allows us to relive that moment, very… Read more →