ahorbinski: hulk smash male privilege! (hulk smash male privilege)
Andrea J. Horbinski ([personal profile] ahorbinski) wrote 2014-04-06 09:05 pm (UTC)

It comes from Hayles' How We Became Posthuman. The liberal subject is predicated on the notion that a) the subject must be self-contained and b) rational cognition is the point of consciousness. (This is why Descrates says that we can only know the world indirectly.) But in fact, neither is true; consciousness is a side-effect of embodiment, not its telos, and no subject is actually self-contained, especially not in the age of the cyborg.

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