Cyborgs, Agents, and Transhumanists

Crossing Traditional Borders of Body and Identity in the Context of New Technology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3501411
AutoresBarbara Becker (0000-0001-9869-954X, Dr. Barbara Becker, German National Research Center of Computer Science (GMD), AIS-Sosy D-53754, St. Augustin, Germany., autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen33
Número5
Páginas361-365
Fecha de publicación2000-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLeonardo (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282
EditorialMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/002409400552838
OpenAlexW2210718944
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas1

In current discourses of technoscience, body, nature, and even life are often described as code, text, or information. On the one hand, classical dichotomies (body/mind, subject/object, man/machine) and their restrictions are dissolving; on the other hand, this discourse often reveals a hidden desire to ignore both the fragility and the sense-giving capacity of materiality. In this paper, the proper dynamic of materiality is explored by looking in particular at what it means to be in a permanent touch with the world with the body. Against this background, efforts at denying or transforming the body in the context of new technologies can be interpreted as the wish to control or avoid the unpredictable and unconscious dimensions of human existence

Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive science · Context (archaeology) · Dichotomy · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Human body · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Materiality (auditing) · Object (grammar) · Objectification · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · History · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Psychology · Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts