I was watching a TV programme about Picasso and I was confronted with cubism. I hadn’t really thought about it before – something deconstructed, fragmented and then put back together in a new way. Sounds a bit post-human to me, but I could be wrong.
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I did not know how to encapsulate all I wanted to say about the lifestream in the final post of 500 words. So I thought I would write some: Tips for Lifestreamers 1, Be aware of how your audiences can affect you. This is a public blog, so you are not only writing for an academic community, [...] Summary Week 11
I have been concentrating on the essay and on editing the lifestream and these have taken me away from posting on the lifestream itself. The course has drawn to a close, in a way. There is no more reading. There are no more weekly introductions. As a result, it is difficult to know [...] Producer and Process
This is a little belated, but nonetheless sincere. The last week of the reading was focused on cyborg pedagogy (Angus, Cook, Evans et al, 2001; McWilliam and Palmer, 1995). Cyborg pedagogy with its three cornerstones of border pedagogy, cyborg ontology and situated knowledge takes us further down the line, across the continuum, of [...] Week 9 – flaneurs and cyborgs – cyborgs and flaneurs – both transgressors; both providing us with new ways to view the world and to be viewed in it. Both providing new worlds, maybe. I have recently had some comments on my posts- all of which were unashamedly requested. It was nice to get someone in [...] Cyborg?
I have just read the text by Shields (2006). The content about cyborgs was interesting. He seems to questioning the human representation of the cyborg, preferring “a virus, a ‘mote’ or ‘crumb’”. The mote and the crumb do not make sense to me, but I am quite taken with re-forming the cyborg as a [...]
This week has been about cyborgs. There have been cyborgs everywhere. Once I was able to cut through the visual imagery of the Terminator and Bladerunner, I found it much easier to think ‘cyborg’. Haraway (2000) and Hayles (1999, 2006) seem both to be saying that the cyborg can be used to think in new ways. [...] Instead of being this – Plato’s androgyne – his metaphor for love in which we are bifurcated beings, constantly looking for our literal ‘other half’ in order to gain the illusive ‘wholeness’ of self, according to Haraway, we become this : a multitude identities, the possession of which causes no conflict as we no longer pine [...] Does reliance on assistive software make us a cyborg? Is the use of distributed cognition, via this reliance, an example of ‘cyborgness’? If this is the case then if when school children or students are allowed to take calculators into exams, and rely on this technology in order to answer the questions (that is, they [...] (Wikipedia, Nov 12th, 09 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexivity_(social_theory): Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things can be said to touch on the issue of Reflexivity. Foucault examines the history of western thought since the Renaissance and argues that each historical epoch (he identifies 3, while proposing a 4th) has an episteme, or “a historical a priori“, that structures and organizes [...] |
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