EMC2500 Lecture series on identity

1. D A T A M A D E F L E S H A N D F L E S H M A D E
D A T A : T H E P O S T H U M A N W I T H I N

2. T H E D I G I T A L
B O D Y
• Embodiments relevance to
social life:
• Second-wave feminism
• Foucault and power
• control and disciplining

3. S C I E N C E ,
T E C H N O L O G Y A N D
T H E B O D Y
• Plastic
• Bionic
• Communal/Interchangeable
• Virtual and hyperreal

4. T H E C Y B O R G
• Your identity is an algorithm
• Boundary play
• F-you
• Slutshaming
• weightshaming
• metaphor of the human-machine
relationship
• Wii and Games

5. – B R A D P A I S L E Y
“I am much cooler online.”

6. B R A I N S T O R M :
What does it mean to be posthuman?

9. T H E T E C H N O - S O C I O
R E L A T I O N S H I P :