Our focus this block is on posthumanities.  Although I had read Donna Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’ a while back, it definitely demanded more than a skim read.   I found a couple of videos of lectures by Haraway that helped give me a better understanding and saved the videos to my YouTube account.  I liked a few quotes and saved them to Tumblr.  One in particular struck me, “To be feminized means to be made extremely vulnerable.” The reason this struck a chord is because there is a drive over here at present to ‘feminize‘ the Cycle 1 schools.  It is hoped that eventually all teaching posts will be filled by locals, at present they are filled mostly by expats.  Unfortunately, the teaching profession is not seen as desirable by males.  However, this being a patriarchal society, it is they who have the power to give or withdraw consent to female workers.  I think this is a topic that can be further explored in a blog.

I am still a little perplexed with the form my Lifestream has taken and wonder if an ‘onlooker’ can make sense of it.  Should I be matching the content with the weekly topics, giving a brief explanation?  Should I be trying out more applications? I have yet to try out my Vimeo account, it was opened when I was having problems with YouTube.  And if I had to do a Lifestream again, how differently would I do it? Thoughts to ponder.