What a nice piece, I felt warmth and thought of Becky Chambers and her writing, Monk and Robot, and about living in space and how people are turned to compost when they die, to feed the plants. I wonder whether we will aslo be forced to leave Earth one day - hopefully by "graduating" and leaving it for the animals to take on the mantle, not the more common sci-fi reason for leaving 😅
The cyborg thesis is not contradicted by the fact that we need material embodiment to inhabit a world. Nor does Heidegger’s account of dwelling have to be read as naïve romanticism: it already recognizes that we inhabit a world through language. If we understand language as a technology in a broader sense, that strengthens the point: mediation is already part of our being in the world.
It doesn't contradict it, it is just very conveniently abstracted (the material embodiment).
Reg, your Heidegger point. Your saying that because our being is always mediated by language and language is a technology, then we always exist from that mediated stance --> cyborg.
The essay doesn't negate mediation. My main point was to highlight the convenient abstraction of the substrate we stand on.
What a nice piece, I felt warmth and thought of Becky Chambers and her writing, Monk and Robot, and about living in space and how people are turned to compost when they die, to feed the plants. I wonder whether we will aslo be forced to leave Earth one day - hopefully by "graduating" and leaving it for the animals to take on the mantle, not the more common sci-fi reason for leaving 😅
The cyborg thesis is not contradicted by the fact that we need material embodiment to inhabit a world. Nor does Heidegger’s account of dwelling have to be read as naïve romanticism: it already recognizes that we inhabit a world through language. If we understand language as a technology in a broader sense, that strengthens the point: mediation is already part of our being in the world.
It doesn't contradict it, it is just very conveniently abstracted (the material embodiment).
Reg, your Heidegger point. Your saying that because our being is always mediated by language and language is a technology, then we always exist from that mediated stance --> cyborg.
The essay doesn't negate mediation. My main point was to highlight the convenient abstraction of the substrate we stand on.