Comments on: Moveo ergo sum http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/09/25/moveo-ergo-sum/ part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Ania Rolińska http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/09/25/moveo-ergo-sum/#comment-14 Ania Rolińska Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:16:22 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/?p=146#comment-14 Thanks Sian for the reference. I must say that the ambivalence and uncertainty characteristic for posthumanism appeal to me and fill with threat at the same time, similarly to the interaction between the tech and human. Still an unsolved puzzle. Although I'm feeling baffled, I perceive this 'crisis' as something positive and generative. The lifestream unfortunately cannot show the ferment of thoughts in my head during the sleepless nights ... Thanks Sian for the reference. I must say that the ambivalence and uncertainty characteristic for posthumanism appeal to me and fill with threat at the same time, similarly to the interaction between the tech and human. Still an unsolved puzzle. Although I’m feeling baffled, I perceive this ‘crisis’ as something positive and generative. The lifestream unfortunately cannot show the ferment of thoughts in my head during the sleepless nights …

]]> By: Siân Bayne http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/09/25/moveo-ergo-sum/#comment-11 Siân Bayne Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:59:03 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/?p=146#comment-11 I quite like Margaret Shilrick on this point about where the question of 'liquidity' in posthumanism leaves us, in termsof politics. She says: The modernist focus on a humanist politics of norms and identity gives way to a politics of hybrids and transformation. And the point here is that although final meaning, full presence and fixed substance are all deferred, the promise is not one of unproductive, limitless fragmentation, but rather of dynamic new incorporations…. The postmodern challenge to humanism is innovative and creative rather than destructive. Shildrick, Margaret (1996) Posthumanism and the monstrous body. Body and Society 2 (1): 1-15 There's lots of theoretical writing out there which counters the dystopian thinking we see so much of in the popular culture... I quite like Margaret Shilrick on this point about where the question of ‘liquidity’ in posthumanism leaves us, in termsof politics. She says:

The modernist focus on a humanist politics of norms and identity gives way to a politics of hybrids and transformation. And the point here is that although final meaning, full presence and fixed substance are all deferred, the promise is not one of unproductive, limitless fragmentation, but rather of dynamic new incorporations…. The postmodern challenge to humanism is innovative and creative rather than destructive.
Shildrick, Margaret (1996) Posthumanism and the monstrous body. Body and Society 2 (1): 1-15

There’s lots of theoretical writing out there which counters the dystopian thinking we see so much of in the popular culture…

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