There are, however, more benign forms of the posthuman that can serve as effective counterbalances to the liberal humanist subject, transforming untrammeled free will into a recognition that agency is always relational and distributed, and correcting an over-emphasis on consciousness to a more accurate view of cognition as embodied throughout human flesh and extended into the social and technological environment.
– Hayles, N. K (2006) Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to Cognisphere, Theory, Culture & Society, 23: pg 160
Posted on Sunday November 22nd
