I was enjoying this discussion, until I saw this article...does this mean that a non- anthropocentric (save-the-planet) point of view makes war politically correct?
What kind of an emerging rhetoric could possibly so rapidly turn things upside down? It is all right to kill each other, as long as our robots are enviromentally friendly?
Is this what post-humanism is all aboutt?
In Donna Haraway's "Manifesto for Cyborgs", there was a distinct irony about women and the third wave movement, labor turning into services, everyobody wired in their machines, the "new" way of production and consumption.
However, it is a different issue when we speak of art, of science or humanism. I don't actually see any irony in this article.
Maybe I am missing all the fun :-)
All the best
Veroniki
--- Στις Τρίτ., 21/07/09, ο/η Murat Germen <muratgermen@sabanciuniv.edu> έγραψε:
Από: Murat Germen <muratgermen@sabanciuniv.edu>
Θέμα: [Yasmin_discussions] Flesh-eating military robots turn vegetarian...
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Ημερομηνία: Τρίτη, 21 Ιούλιος 2009, 11:37
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