Comments on: Posthuman(esque) Pedagogy? http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/11/26/posthumanesque-pedagogy/ 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: Neil David Buchanan http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/11/26/posthumanesque-pedagogy/#comment-216 Neil David Buchanan Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:25:49 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/?p=11828#comment-216 Ania, I was fascinated by this project and have just spent half an hour wandering around inside the liquid book! What fascinated me, too, were the other things, the unaccountable and unexpected things that appeared alongside the texts and images such as adverts and inducements to test my muscle density or something. It makes reading a different experience. And when links end in dead ends you discover that there are other places to go. I'm with Grace on the creativity question as I think the "audit and accountability culture" is slowly draining the creative side of life but like you I find myself exploring new ways of looking at things thanks to this course. Ania, I was fascinated by this project and have just spent half an hour wandering around inside the liquid book! What fascinated me, too, were the other things, the unaccountable and unexpected things that appeared alongside the texts and images such as adverts and inducements to test my muscle density or something. It makes reading a different experience. And when links end in dead ends you discover that there are other places to go.

I’m with Grace on the creativity question as I think the “audit and accountability culture” is slowly draining the creative side of life but like you I find myself exploring new ways of looking at things thanks to this course.

]]> By: Ania Rolińska http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/11/26/posthumanesque-pedagogy/#comment-189 Ania Rolińska Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:16:53 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/?p=11828#comment-189 Hi Grace, many thanks for your kind words - I'm glad you enjoy my creative attempts (although please read my reply to Austin's comment to learn about the 'cute character') - I think the IDEL module last term unleashed whatever creativity I had in me and this course is continuing that mission. I'd like to design courses that help my students find their own creative way of expressing themselves and learn more about themselves in the process. Why do you think creativity is a prerequisite for the posthuman education? Is it because it allows transposition, looking at things from a different perspective, thinking out of proverbial box and thus extending our experience which in itself might be limiting?? As to the liquid reading I am sometimes concerned that the attempts to visualise might render reading/interpreting shallower but then I think of the collective feeling of amazement at the multiple interpretations our visual artefacts induced and I think liquidity might be the way to go ... Hi Grace, many thanks for your kind words – I’m glad you enjoy my creative attempts (although please read my reply to Austin’s comment to learn about the ‘cute character’) – I think the IDEL module last term unleashed whatever creativity I had in me and this course is continuing that mission. I’d like to design courses that help my students find their own creative way of expressing themselves and learn more about themselves in the process.

Why do you think creativity is a prerequisite for the posthuman education? Is it because it allows transposition, looking at things from a different perspective, thinking out of proverbial box and thus extending our experience which in itself might be limiting??
As to the liquid reading I am sometimes concerned that the attempts to visualise might render reading/interpreting shallower but then I think of the collective feeling of amazement at the multiple interpretations our visual artefacts induced and I think liquidity might be the way to go …

]]> By: Ania Rolińska http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/11/26/posthumanesque-pedagogy/#comment-188 Ania Rolińska Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:53:02 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/?p=11828#comment-188 Thanks Austin for the comment. I don't think the collaboration itself is posthuman, it's more the new understandings of the subjectivity that are at play with posthuman in this learning experiment. This is of course enabled by the Internet - would/could teachers and students create course materials equally easily, effectively working in an offline mode? And to what extent could such materials be interacted with by another cohort of students? Think of costs, time, etc. The mediation of the Internet makes it possible - the cyborgisation of course content, or the journal itself (see the Liquid Book reader). As to the cute 'Source' character, it's actually a reading lamp designed by Black & Blum. I think I might have inadvertently mislead people into thinking that I am the author of the design. I have adjusted the caption to prevent that from happening again. Thanks Austin for the comment. I don’t think the collaboration itself is posthuman, it’s more the new understandings of the subjectivity that are at play with posthuman in this learning experiment. This is of course enabled by the Internet – would/could teachers and students create course materials equally easily, effectively working in an offline mode? And to what extent could such materials be interacted with by another cohort of students? Think of costs, time, etc. The mediation of the Internet makes it possible – the cyborgisation of course content, or the journal itself (see the Liquid Book reader).

As to the cute ‘Source’ character, it’s actually a reading lamp designed by Black & Blum. I think I might have inadvertently mislead people into thinking that I am the author of the design. I have adjusted the caption to prevent that from happening again.

]]> By: Grace Elliott http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/11/26/posthumanesque-pedagogy/#comment-169 Grace Elliott Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:46:46 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/?p=11828#comment-169 Hi Ania, I hadn’t heard the term ‘liquid reading’ before so thank you for this. I like your attempt at capturing the liquidity of the reading process. As Austin said, it's cute. Looking at things from a different perspective does help reflect on what it is we know ,or think we know, which your pics have captured well. I do enjoy looking at your work, you really are very creative. and from what I garner so far in this course, it’s a necessary quality for the posthuman. Hi Ania,

I hadn’t heard the term ‘liquid reading’ before so thank you for this. I like your attempt at capturing the liquidity of the reading process. As Austin said, it’s cute. Looking at things from a different perspective does help reflect on what it is we know ,or think we know, which your pics have captured well. I do enjoy looking at your work, you really are very creative. and from what I garner so far in this course, it’s a necessary quality for the posthuman.

]]> By: Austin Tate http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/11/26/posthumanesque-pedagogy/#comment-165 Austin Tate Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:31:51 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/?p=11828#comment-165 Thanks Ania... its an interesting area to explore. Would a wiki be something related to this type of interaction? Obviously our reach in such collaborations is greater in an internet connected world. Does collaboration together in this fluid way means posthumansim? I loved the cute "Source" character :-) Thanks Ania… its an interesting area to explore. Would a wiki be something related to this type of interaction? Obviously our reach in such collaborations is greater in an internet connected world. Does collaboration together in this fluid way means posthumansim?

I loved the cute “Source” character :-)

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