WMST 1001H Study Guide - Final Guide: Cyborg, White Supremacy
12 Apr 2019
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Ghost in the shell 1995 mamory oshii: matako (female) and batako (male) both had cyborg bodies. Matako had the cyborg piece withn herself and you coulden"t tell from the outside of the cybord. Humanism: developed by the ancient greeks and romans and valued empirical observations and was concerned more so with math and science. In england, thomas hobbs - levithan, and, john locke an essay concerning human understanding both wrote intresting books which lead to more knowledge based empirical observations rather than religion. Transhuman: fundamentally improving the human condition through applied reason, especially by using technology to eliminate aging and greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psycholoigical capabilities, extending the human body through technology. Posthuman: a posthuman would no longer be a human being, having been so significantly altered as to no longer represent the human species. D. j haraway simians, cyborgs and women: the cyborg is our ontology, it gives us our politics.
