ISS 210 Lecture Notes - Aibo, Posthumanism, Anthropocentrism
Document Summary
When you look into the eyes of another subject - at the same time, they are looking back at you. What is an intersubjective experience? existing bet ween conscious minds; shared by more than one conscious mind. Requires t wo subjects, signi cant to our social world - we connect with other subjects in meaningful ways via gazing back. Posthumanism de nition an area of inquiry that looks beyond human. Posthumanism designates a series of breaks with foundational assumptions of modern western culture: in particular, a new way of understanding the human subject in relation to the natural world in general. Posthumanist theory claims to offer a new epistemology that is not anthropocentric and therefore not centered in cartesian dualism. It seeks to undermine the traditional boundaries bet ween the human, the animal, and the technological. We all rely on other species to survive, to maintain balanced ecosystems. E. g. we need plants to breathe, bees to pollinate.
