Week 9 Summary
Finally, a eureka moment! Week 9 (and 8!) has significantly encroached on week 10 as I have been struggling with the meaning of post-human. Until now, I considered it to be related to human action and found myself trying to ‘fit’ it into some schema that sat nicely in my preconceived understanding of being human. After reading Edwards ’The end of lifelong learning: a posthuman condition?’ it clicked that ’post’ is ‘going beyond’ being human. Perhaps a simple point to grasp but without it it has been particulary difficult to make meaning of Haraway and Hayles. Now I have a better understanding of this I feel I can read these again and begin to contruct a blog related to some of their work.
I’ve been looking for examples of posthuman in films and media and storing them in Delicious to keep for my blog. I also added StumbleUpon to my lifestream. Unfortunately I now realise I saved them in a folder with the same name as my lifestream tag and so they fed directly onto my lifestream. This left my page with a range of bizzare and disjointed artefacts when viewed without any context. I have rectified this problem, leaving me just my page to tidy over the few remaining weeks.