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 Judith
Hello! I know this is kinda off topic however , I’d figured I’d ask. Would you be interested in trading links or maybe guest writing a blog article or vice-versa? My blog addresses a lot of the same topics as yours and I believe we could greatly benefit from ach other. If you happen to be interested feel free to… Read more →
Comment on Digital Memory – initial thoughts by bhenderson
Thanks for the comment, some key questions here, but ones which are very difficult to answer at this stage. There is a lot of speculation around ‘preserving’ mental processes through technology and ‘brain training’. from Comments for Ben’s EDC blog http://ift.tt/1zIGThW via IFTTT 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 →
RT @majoos_emlyn: Another one of my idols Dr. Michio Kaku and his ideas on transhumanism. https://t.co/SztBX5eXgO #mscedc
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Comment on We only Attack Ourselves by Ed
A really evocative video. The robot body is the transhumanist dream. What is interesting here is that the man is an unwilling participant, and by being having the robot body, by no longer being fully human he is stigmatized. His partner lives him. (Shades of the mutant debate in X-men). While the line between enhancement and artificiality is blurred, I… Read more →
Summary of humanism,posthumanism and the idea of naturalistic fallacy – why is natural better than artifical? http://t.co/UtYMIkvqKU #mscedc
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Comment on We only Attack Ourselves by Jeremy Knox
Nice summary here Ben! I like how you have identified the tensions of enhancement portrayed in this clip. So, technology is viewed as beneficial when it overcomes our inability to do something, but at what stage does that go too far and begin to encroach on our ‘humanness’? Where do we draw the line between enhancement and artificiality? Is that… Read more →
Posthumanism- self-governing mechanisms
The idea of an aircraft and pilot being seen as one self-govering mechanism triggered a new argument around posthumanism for me, and has also made me consider what other human/technology relationships could fall into the same catagory. Considering the three fundemental themes of posthumansim from Wiener; a single entity where organic and inorganic are merged, no conceptual differences between the two… Read more →