Posthuman

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The age of high technology is termed eposthumanE, a time when all technological progress is geared towards the transformation of the human species. However, the real value of the concept of the posthuman lies in a paradox, in the possibility of rethinking what one call human values, human rights, and human dignity against the backdrop of fast-developing bio-technologies that open both the idea and the body of the human to reinvention and potential redesign.

Technology and civilization, Technology and society, Ethnology, Cultural anthropology, Transhumanism

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Simulation

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Simulation, a key feature of the contemporary capitalist world, is a concept most closely associated with Jean Baudrillard, whose 'Symbolic Exchange and Death' gives a provocative account of the global dynamics of an emergent culture of simulation. Such culture has three inter-related features, one of which is hyperreality, or that which is more real than the real.

Simulation methods, Simulation, Materialism, Photo-realism, Photorealism

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When we have never been human, what is to be done?

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Donna Haraway, a professor discusses about her 1985 publication, "Cyborg Manifesto", her aims, motivations for writing this feminist theoretical essay, and the concern of her companion writers. She believes human beings are always in partnership, and to be human is to be a collection of relationalities.

United States, Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Executive changes & profiles, Colleges and universities, Officials and employees, Universities and colleges, Interview, Haraway, Donna Jeanne

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