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1. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

   In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age.

   Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman."

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 23:21

2. Littérature, Informatique, Lecture: De la Lecture Assistée par Ordinateur à la Lecture Intéractive

   Littérature, Informatique, Lecture: De la Lecture Assistée par Ordinateur à la Lecture Intéractive

   Alvaro Seica - 06.12.2013 - 15:35

3. The Disenchantment of the World

   Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is "the religion of the end of religion." In The Disenchantment of the World, Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern west, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's changing relation to religion. He views Western history as a movement away from religious society, beginning with prophetic Judaism, gaining tremendous momentum in Christianity, and eventually leading to the rise of the political state. Gauchet's view that monotheistic religion itself was a form of social revolution is rich with implications for readers in fields across the humanities and social sciences. Life in religious society, Gauchet reminds us, involves a very different way of being than we know in our secular age: we must imagine prehistoric times where ever-present gods controlled every aspect of daily reality, and where ancestor worship grounded life's meaning in a far-off past.

   Yvanne Michéle Louise Kerignard - 23.09.2019 - 21:47

4. The will to learn: A guide for motivating young people

   The will to learn: A guide for motivating young people

   Lene Tøftestuen - 27.05.2021 - 16:01