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Bookmark Darwin Among the Machines — [To the Editor of the Press, Christchurch,…
Sir—There are few things of which the present generation is more justly proud than of the wonderful improvements which are daily taking place in all sorts of mechanical appliances. And indeed…

December 31 2012, 6:54am | Comments
Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments
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IS ONTOLOGY MAKING US STUPID?

September 20 2012, 7:35am | Comments
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Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture

September 8 2012, 6:06am | Comments
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Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments
Bookmark Superhuman: The artist, the scholar and the zealot « Wellcome Trust Blog
The frontier of science is a wild and lawless place. Like all badlands, it attracts visionaries, charlatans and the dispossessed. Far from the jurisdiction of law enforcers, isolated communities cluster together…

August 29 2012, 2:17am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Speculative Realism 101 Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. I am interested in Speculative Realism (SR) (and Speculative Materialism (SM)) as attempts to overcome 'Philosophies of access' (those which privilege the human being over other entities; anthropocentrism). Also, any texts that…

July 26 2012, 7:40am | Comments
Bookmark We live in a "more-than-human" universe
The new political ecology is thus emerging from a call for greater humility toward the world and all the life forms it may hold, both literally and figuratively. Rather than contrasting…

February 13 2012, 2:09am | Comments
Bookmark Man as Machine
A peculiar experiment inspired by the Enlightenment sheds light on the age-old question of what makes us human.

February 9 2012, 10:34am | Comments
Findings quote from High Techne - Rutsky
The position of human beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot, therefore, be that of the analyst (or theorist) who, standing outside this space, presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation of connection to, of interaction with, that which…

January 6 2012, 7:52am | Comments
Bookmark It’s Only Humanist
To me it tastes like a desire to locate man’s place in a world that he perceives primarily with the aid of machines. The art of the Greeks has been used…

January 4 2012, 9:16am | Comments
Bookmark Humanism / After Humanism
n this essay, I want to explore some dimensions of what the term “humanism” means—what it meant in the past and what it means today. In particular, I would like to…

August 11 2011, 11:30am | Comments
Bookmark Humans, Version 3.0
This view of the future of humankind is grounded in an appreciation of the biologically innate powers bestowed upon us by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. This deep respect…

March 5 2011, 4:01am | Comments
Bookmark Unnatural: the Heretical Idea of Making People
We human beings persist in thinking of ourselves as a unique species, endowed with special insight into a universe that we can manipulate. In fact, this notion is based on unexamined…

February 21 2011, 1:23am | Comments
Bookmark Against humanism
by Mary Midgley Does the term "humanism" really stand for a new and better form of religion? If so, what is that religion? Or is it something designed as a cure…

November 4 2010, 6:58am | Comments
Bookmark What is Posthumanism?
Perhaps you have had a nightmare in which you fell through the bottom of your known universe into a vortex of mutated children, talking animals, mental illness, freakish art, and clamoring…

September 13 2010, 3:19am | Comments
Bookmark Posthumanism: A Christian Response
The posthuman worldview goes a step beyond demoting human begins in the hierarchy of value. It promotes other species, proposing that animals are more rational than we knew. We are forced…

April 29 2010, 10:16am | Comments

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