The Is Not Mean The End Of Humanity And The Rise Of The...

The word posthuman signals something that comes after human, but keeps the essence of a human. As Katherine Hayles suggests, the posthuman does not mean the end of the humanity and the rise of the non-human, more like a shared partnership between humans and non-humans, continuously challenging the boundaries between the two. But where are these boundaries? I think nowadays there are several new inventions in biology, technology and reproduction which can redefine the limits of humanity and the beginning of posthumanity. To illustrate this uncertainty in locating these limits, I would use the example of Neil Bedmington. In his essay, ‘Theorizing Posthumanism’ he chose an instance from the cover of Time, which raises the problem of human remains. In 1983 the Time magazine was expected to announce its â€Å"Man of the Year†. The winner was unexpected and a bit strange, compared to the previous ones. Several human candidates might have represented 1982, the publisher of the magazine explained to his readers, but none symbolized the past year more richly, or will be viewed by history as more significant, than a machine: the computer. Man of the Year turned into Machine of the Year, and on the cover, the headline said: The computer moves in. (fig.1.) The event did not go unnoticed, three weeks later the letter page of Time had over thirty responses to the award, and only a few of them were satisfied with the winner. Irving Kullback was one of the happy ones: I neverShow MoreRelatedGlobal Warming And Climate Change1332 Words   |  6 PagesGlobal Warming and climate change have effected pop culture since the late twentieth century. Human pollution and consumption began in the eighteenth century due to the industrial revolution (Richard Smith). There is a huge difference in what scientists have studied and what is out in pop culture. 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