Sunday, May 18, 2008

It's time to talk about HUMAN.^^

We are human-beings. But,
We've been talked about some technology stuff, like memex, www and ai. Now it's time to focus our attention on Human. Human beings invented lots of prosthesis, which is an artificial extension that replaces a missing body part. Prostheses are typically used to replace parts lost by injury or missing from birth or to supplement defective body parts. So if you just wear lenses on your eyes, you are using prosthesis. Same way using keyboard, you would not think where the letter is on the keyboard all the time, you just type what you want to write without that. Kinaesthetic is the term of this state.

Here, some categories to think about Human beings. Gender, race, sexualiy and class. Class means poor or rich. Among that, the best sensitive category is class. Because the rich would inherit an artificial gene which would be so expensive one between themselves.


Do you know what this animal is? It is a chimera. In Greek mythology, a chimera is a creature with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a snack. It does not belong any of those.
LIKE CYBORG. A cyborg is not just a robot, it's more a being that is part human and part machine, or a machine that looks like a human being.
Donna Haraway used this to support her theory. She earned a degree in Zoology and Philosophy and completed her Ph. D. from the Biology.
A Cyborg Manifesto, Haraway has been described as a feminist. In 1985, Haraway published the essay A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century in "Simians, Cyborgs and Women". Although most of Haraway’s earlier work is focused on emphasizing the masculine bias in scientific culture, she has also contributed greatly to feminist narratives of the twentieth century. I think she is a really smart and charming woman.
Let's call it a day. Thank you for the good lecture, Dr.Yoon.

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