Comments on: Week 2 Synthesis https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/2015/01/25/end-of-week-2-reflections-on-lifestream-content/ "If you could see what I have seen with your eyes ..." Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:20:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Jeremy Knox https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/2015/01/25/end-of-week-2-reflections-on-lifestream-content/#comment-16 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:29:04 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/njenkins/?p=107#comment-16 Excellent summary here Nick, you’re reflecting on specific lifestream content and relating these choices back to the readings and course themes – nice work. Good to see Pinterest as well as Twitter feeding in – I’m investigating Pinterest embedding at the moment, so will get back to you.

‘One unifying features connecting Bayne, Haraway and the emergence of digital ‘hactivism’ is the opposition towards essentialism, individualism, and grand theories in cyberspace.’

Yes, that is good way of summarising much that we’ve encountered in this first block. I like how you have situated the Transhumanism as a continuation of humanism, and this gets to some of the fundamental differences between the ‘posthumanisms’, itself an umbrella term for some quite different positions.

If ‘digital culture’, at least in some of its forms, is interwoven with ideas that oppose humanism, where does that leave us with the question of education I wonder. Is the project of education tied to humanism in a way that makes ‘digital culture’ a problematic intervention?

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