Making and Remaking the Human: Embodiment and Subject(ivities) within Anthropotechnologies

Description of research

As the latest generation of (bio-) technologies operates at the molecular, and even nano-, level of the human body and have the boundaries between human and animal, organism and machine, the physical and non-physical evaporate, the prospect of a posthuman future, whether praised by transhumanists who greet the perspective of an improved and enhanced successor human being or lamented as a violation of human nature by bioconservatives, materialises. That is, current technological developments challenge the generic category of the human and may have brought us to the limits of humanity. It is against this backdrop that this project takes place.

More precisely, by undertaking ethnographical fieldwork in the domains of tissue regeneration and prosthetics, both in lab settings and with people who have had recourse to these technologies, it is the discursive, material and embodied emergence of the (post-) human subject(s) and subjectivity(ies) that is under investigation: what kinds of bodies and subject positions are being produced and experienced? How is the human made and remade in the fields of tissue regeneration and prosthetics?

Advisor(s)

Prof.dr.ir. Peter-Paul Verbeek

Duration

2009-2013

Project

VIDI/NWO project ‘Technology and the Limits of Humanity: The Ethics and Anthropology of Posthumanism’

Funding institution

NWO

Strategic Research Orientation

NICE - Natural Interaction in Computer-mediated Environments

Links to relevant web pages:

http://www.utwente.nl/gw/wijsb/organization/dalibert/

http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/people/dalibert_lucie/

http://www.utwente.nl/gw/wijsb/organization/verbeek/vidi.doc/

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Home CTIT symposium 2013 About CTIT News NIRICT Research Meet the PhDs Working at CTIT Internal Information Conferences Open Calls (updated May 3, 2013) Library and Videos Knowledge Transfer Links Sitemap Search	Making and Remaking the Human: Embodiment and Subject(ivities) within Anthropotechnologies Description of research As the latest generation of (bio-) technologies operates at the molecular, and even nano-, level of the human body and have the boundaries between human and animal, organism and machine, the physical and non-physical evaporate, the prospect of a posthuman future, whether praised by transhumanists who greet the perspective of an improved and enhanced successor human being or lamented as a violation of human nature by bioconservatives, materialises. That is, current technological developments challenge the generic category of the human and may have brought us to the limits of humanity. It is against this backdrop that this project takes place. More precisely, by undertaking ethnographical fieldwork in the domains of tissue regeneration and prosthetics, both in lab settings and with people who have had recourse to these technologies, it is the discursive, material and embodied emergence of the (post-) human subject(s) and subjectivity(ies) that is under investigation: what kinds of bodies and subject positions are being produced and experienced? How is the human made and remade in the fields of tissue regeneration and prosthetics? Advisor(s) Prof.dr.ir. Peter-Paul Verbeek Duration 2009-2013 Project VIDI/NWO project ‘Technology and the Limits of Humanity: The Ethics and Anthropology of Posthumanism’ Funding institution NWO Strategic Research Orientation NICE - Natural Interaction in Computer-mediated Environments Links to relevant web pages: http://www.utwente.nl/gw/wijsb/organization/dalibert/ http://www.ethicsandtechnology.eu/people/dalibert_lucie/ http://www.utwente.nl/gw/wijsb/organization/verbeek/vidi.doc/ Pictures