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DONNA HARAWAY
WE HAVE NEVER BEEN HUMAN
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Donna Haraway, author of the much discussed, "The Cyborg Manifesto," is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she teaches feminist theory and science studies. She is also an affiliated faculty member in the Women's Studies, Anthropology and Environmental Studies Departments at UCSC. Dr. Haraway is the author of Crystals, Fabrics and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology (Yale University Press, 1976), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (Routledge, 1989; Verso,1992), Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (Routledge,1991; Free Association Books, 1991), Modest Witness @Second Millennium. FemaleMan© Meets OncoMouse (Routledge, 1997) and The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003)
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WEDNESDAY MARCH 10, 2004
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ARTHUR KROKER
THE WILL TO TECHNOLOGY AND THE CULTURE OF NIHILISM
Digital Futures Series, University of Toronto Press
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A multimedia/print book launch and lecture.
The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism explores the future of the twenty-first century in the language of technological destiny. Presenting Heidegger, Nietzsche and Marx as prophets of technological nihilism, it will be argued that every aspect of contemporary culture, society and politics is coded by the dynamic unfolding of the 'will to technology'.
Posthumanism, then, as a harbinger of our technological future.
Dr. Arthur Kroker is Canada Research Chair in Technology,Culture and Theory and a Professor in the Political ScienceDepartment at the University of Victoria. He is the Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC) and co-editor (with Marilouise Kroker) of CTHEORY <www.ctheory.net> for 'The Will to Technology' Multimedia Version [click here] . Multimedia Designer : Spencer Saunders (Communicate New Media)
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THURDAY FEBRUARY 12, 2004
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DR. WILLIAM LEISS
CULTURAL POLITICS OF BIO-GENETICS
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What is the future of human genetic engineering?
Are the clones and chimeras likely to be produced by human genetic engineering part of the biotech future? Or is this vision of the posthuman future something long implied by the cultural history of technology? Are we moving towards the age of the posthuman, or are we trapped in a technological cycle first explored by the writings of Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum?
William Leiss is a Fellow and Past-President of the Royal Society of Canada; NSERC/SSHRC Research Chair in Risk Communication and Public Policy in the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary; Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University; and Executive-in-Residence,Mclaughlin Centre for Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa.
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THURSDAY JANUARY 29, 2004
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PAUL D. MILLER (aka DJ SPOOKY)
Sound Unbound / Rhythm Science
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Paul D. Miller (aka Dj Spooky) is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in NYC. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Ctheory, Artforum, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine, and a host of other periodicals. His work as an artist has appeared in a wide variety of contexts such as the Whitney Biennial, The Venice Biennial for Architecture, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and many other museums and galleries. Miller has recorded a large volume of music as "Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid" and has collaborated with a wide variety of pre-eminent musicians and composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kool Keith, Yoko Ono, and Thurston Moore. He also did the music score for the Cannes and Sundance award winning film "Slam" starring critically acclaimed poet Saul Williams. Paul D. Miller is a member of the editorial board of CTheory.
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