CUL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Post-Structuralism, Transhuman, Consequentialism

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Technology is neither an object nor neutral: technology can never be considered external to use, technology is not neutral we"re inside of what we make and it is inside us. E. g when you drive a car, you don"t become the driver of the car, you become a car driver > a part of the car assemblage. Elements: the phone, its screen, hardware, ear, earphones, eye, your hand. Conjunction of elements" > ear + earplug, eye + screen. Qualities, affects, effectivity shiny, sexy, aesthetic, cool", important", moulds attention. focuses, distracts, connects, facilitates movements, transactions, becomes part of id. The cyborg: world > entangled network, natural and artificial or human and technology, no longer hold any useful meaning, thinking about our selves as humans. Cul120: the cyborg > a figure of hope, things can be reconstructed, recognition of cyborg state allows us a potentiality.

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