Following on from some of the points raised at the last seminar on Post-postmodernism we are moving on to Posthumanism, and what it means to be posthuman.
Sometimes referred to as transhumanism, we will look at the influence that technology has on life and evolution, and importantly what it means for contemporary identity. Do we have to reposition our identities to take into account the role that technology plays within our lives? And how is this redefining then represented in culture?
I would like to thank Dr Kathryn Laing for suggesting the reading from N Katherine Hayles' book How we became Posthuman: Virtual bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics.
The first chapter of the book is available here:
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Hayles-Posthuman-excerpts.pdf
Additional information on N. Katherine Hayles can be found here:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/321460.html
http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/hayles/
Our second seminar will take place on Thursday, November 8th at 5pm in room T202 in Mary Immaculate College.
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