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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 [...]
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 [...]
