Prezi presentation created by Sian Bayne looking at Uncanny Digital literacies.
Paper written by Sian Bayne looking at the embodiment of the online learner. Research for week 10 of the course.
In that our images and profiles- and, in more visual environments, our avatars- represent a re-embodiment within the terms of the digital, we scatter our bodies accross the web where they gain a kind of independence as nodes of commentary, connection and appropriation by others into new networks and new configurations
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| — | Sian Bayne “Academetron, automaton, phantom:uncanny digital pedagogies” |
Really interesting article on Second Life. Some of the comments at the end are relevant in relation to our discussions on community.
Youtube presentation, Beyond human: the cyborg revolution. Looking at the topic of cyborg and posthumanism.
Donna Hararway youtube video, A manifesto for cyborgs. Trying to see if I can understand the paper a little better in video format!
According to transhumanist thinkers, a posthuman is a hypothetical future being “whose basic capacities so radically exceed those of present humans as to be no longer unambiguously human by our current standards.”[6]
The difference between the posthuman and other hypothetical sophisticated non-humans is that a posthuman was once a human, either in its lifetime or in the lifetimes of some or all of its direct ancestors. As such, a prerequisite for a posthuman is a transhuman, the point at which the human being begins surpassing his or her own limitations, but is still recognizable as a human person or similar.[6] In this sense, the transition between human and posthuman may be viewed as a continuum rather than an all-or-nothing event.
