New Media Ontologies and the Technological Unconscious
Michael GallagherWashington Square Park in NewYork as a composite of complexity underneath. The image of the park is an abstraction and underneath that abstraction sits the communication flow that we offloaded…
A moral philosophy of mobility
Reader beware: rambling post ahead. Hence the music below (Cathart) in case you want to listen to something to spell the time. Listen on Posterous I manage a blog for…
Cyborgs & the Truth of the Metropolis
I think over the course of the next week it will become painfully obvious that I enjoyed Shields's "Flanerie for Cyborgs" article tremendously. It captured a bit of my somewhat…
Wearable Technology and Cyborg Augmentation: Reflexive Feedback
I am actually of the opinion that wearable technology, which is logically defined as technology that can be worn (generally embedded in the clothing or itself), offers a good metaphor…
Posthuman as series of components; Construction and alteration as learning constant
“The posthuman subject is an amalgam, a collection of heterogeneous components, a material-informational entity whose boundaries undergo continuous construction and reconstruction.” (Hayles 1999, 3) A collection of heterogeneous components of…
Hayles, Post-Human, and Cartesian Dualism: Reclaiming the body
As I normally do, I will attack this question via the portal of literature. Cartesian mind/body dualism has governed our our take on the nature of being both individually and…