Lecture 3: Lyotard, The Inhuman, Posthumanism

Posthumanism and Technology

In this lecture I will how Lyotard's The Inhuman offers a reconceptualization of technology as a type of inscription. By ‘inscription’ Lyotard is referring to development’s information and communications. The expansion of communications has specific consequences for how we experience time, space and cognitive perception. I will conclude with a discussion of Lyotard’s famous essay ‘Can thought go without a body?’ which offers alternatives to the logic of development.

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