English 2017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Science Fiction Film, Sensorium

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2017
• Professor: Riley McDonald

Document Summary

Lecture 47 - post humanism ii: the cyborg future. Not necessarily that which comes after the human (a part but not the. Response to the ideology of humanism, the ideology that puts human being as the most important being in creation that filter experience and identity through. By decentering the human, or taking them out as the primary arbiter of experience. Thinking through the binaries and myths of the human beings and thinking what can be done if we challenged those pre-existing binaries. Cyborg is a being that is more than just an organic component, it has extended itself through application of technologies to adapt to a wider environment. Media technologies change our perceptions of the world. Cyborg something that exists between a human and a robot, in the middle. She wants to think about a feminist socialist materialist approach to reality. She is setting up an idea that all of us our cyborgs.