{"id":91391,"date":"2019-05-29T04:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T11:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/i-see-you-the-posthuman-subject-and-spaces-of-virtuality-rebecca-bishop"},"modified":"2019-05-29T04:42:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T11:42:50","slug":"i-see-you-the-posthuman-subject-and-spaces-of-virtuality-rebecca-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/i-see-you-the-posthuman-subject-and-spaces-of-virtuality-rebecca-bishop","title":{"rendered":"I See You: the posthuman subject and spaces of virtuality \u2013 Rebecca Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-see-you-the-posthuman-subject-and-spaces-of-virtuality-rebecca-bishop.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paper.li\/e-1437691924\">https:\/\/paper.li\/e-1437691924<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Everything is backwards now, like out there is the real world and this is the dream.<\/em> (James Cameron\u2019s<em> Avatar, <\/em>2009) <\/p>\n<p>Over recent years, considerable scholarly attention and mass media speculation has been paid to the emergence of the figure of the posthuman \u2013 a vision of augmented human that has undergone radical transformation as a result of new biotechnological and informatic technologies. This posthumanity lives simultaneously in the world of the virtual and the biological, cast concurrently as the future of a biomedically enhanced humanity and a figuration for overcoming the identity politics of the past. Some are arguing that we will eventually leave the human \u2018as we know it\u2019 behind, in a techno-modified, cognitively enhanced evolution, while in critical theory, the posthuman is being lauded as an ontology through which the boundary structures of the EuroWestern legacy of humanism can be dismantled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/refractory.unimelb.edu.au\/2012\/12\/28\/bishop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/paper.li\/e-1437691924 Everything is backwards now, like out there is the real world and this is the dream. (James Cameron\u2019s Avatar, 2009) Over recent years, considerable scholarly attention and mass media speculation has been paid to the emergence of the figure of the posthuman \u2013 a vision of augmented human that has undergone radical transformation as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}