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“(Cyborg) is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.” (Haraway, 2007) I had such a hard time reading the piece by Haraway, as even the title itself and its reference to socialist-feminism tainted my attitude towards … Continue reading →

I have chosen the Future Lab demonstration of Eco Bugs as my example of a post human pedagogy. The Eco Bugs ‘game’ may be viewed as a post human ‘gathering’ (Edwards, 2010) of children, game designers, the natural environment and … Continue reading →

One of the things I’ve liked about the Lifestream has been the way that links have become apparent between weekly or two-weekly topics because some feeds that I have subscribed to, with one topic in mind, have provided interesting insights … Continue reading →

I took my lead in thinking about posthuman pedagogy from considering Hayles’s critique of anthropocentrism and Pederson’s critques of, firstly, the ‘”humanist” tradition, where the human subject is considered both the instrument and the end product of education’, and, secondly, … Continue reading →

Welcome to the final stage of the course! The posthuman pedagogy tasks are arriving thick and fast, and looking fantastic. We are now starting the final period of assignment preparation. Therefore, there are no structured tasks for the next two … Continue reading →

This Wordle visualisation illustrates the strong (anti)feminist connection that come’s through in Donna Haraway’s essay “A Cyborg Manifesto”. Centrally Haraway’s cyborg world seems to be a device for abandonning the dualisms of (wo)man/machine, mind/body etc. The cyborg provides a predominantly … Continue reading →

I have just watched a recording of Ten Paradoxes of Technology. He seems to be espousing a posthumanist perspective of technology and uses these ten paradoxes to illustrate how we are often blinded to the interdependance of the human and … Continue reading →