I have struggled a bit with this one, so I have decided to show something that I originally thought was “posthuman” when I first saw it demonstrated but I know think is actually the opposite! Background Back in the early 1990s before I even had an email address, I was teaching English in Poland. My [...]
Looking for a time machine: astrolabes in Medieval Jewish society This intrigued me as further evidence of Edwards’ ‘gathering” and the non-separation of matter and meaning. The documents themselves are entangled with the human world they enact with. (Clumsy sentence!) Perhaps Latour’s “quasi objects”. Barad as quoted in Edwards: “Making knowledge is not simply about [...]
A sentence from Edwards leapt out at me and I wanted to see if I could explore an inarticulate idea I’ve long held but could never find a way to fully express. In my way, this is an attempt at some responsible experimentation. Edwards was discussing the entanglement of the human and the non-human “as [...]
This week has really been about trying to come to terms with the concepts of PostHuman and, to a lesser extent, Cyborg. The latter seems more easily grasped in and I’ve found current events stories online very useful in clarifying what the cyborg is. For example, the creation of cyborg yeast and cyborg insects. For [...]
As Carol observed in her blog, after the ethnography I felt like I could take some time to reflect on all that had taken place and the work that had been done. I worked hard on the ethnography because I loved the process and felt that I had achieved something. I also wanted to do [...]
Over the last 2 weeks I have been wrestling with 2 threshold concepts; Posthuman and Cyborg. Until I get a handle on at least one of these, I can not move forward in my learning. For this posting, I am going to concentrate on posthuman. My initial issue is that I need to understand what [...]
This week has been one immersed in ethnography, both in the making and in the sharing. I have enjoyed looking at everyone’s work and have got so much out of seeing the results of our readings and our attempts at creating an ethnography. This has helped bring the LifeStream and the course itself alive for [...]
Preparation Preparing for this assignment brought back memories of being an undergraduate at Edinburgh in the early 1980s. I was studying history then and we lived in terror of allowing any hint of subjectivity to creep into our essays and assignments. It therefore came as a shock when reading for this task to find that [...]
For some reason, certain feeds stopped working on my LifeStream, namely YouTube and Delicious. This meant I had to tinker with the settings. This induced fear; fear of breaking something and not being able to get back my “stuff”. After it was all sorted and the feeds were flowing again, I reflected on this aspect [...]
