If there is anything that I can take away from the political science courses I have taken and now this course, it’s that identity is a central element to both the social and political spheres. From closely examining the lack of political identity in a post-Soviet Russia to defining the identity of the post-human, it is clear that identity persists as one of the most important human characteristics. Continue reading
At the start of the week I found myself scrambling to finish different assignments and come up with a good idea for a paper proposal. After having done many annotated bibliographies in the past, I didn’t put much faith into this one in helping me establish at least an idea for an argument. All it took though was a little research and I found myself coming across articles and books that combined topics I never would have thought to combine and eventually I came up with a pretty good idea for my essay. More important to the class though are the arguments and concepts I found along the way. Continue reading
“The more the human will becomes conformed to what God wills, the more free human beings are to become who they truly desire to be” (189). This quote from Nuth’s essay at the end of The Showings of Julian of Norwich is, to me, a very interesting approach to life. It would seems logical that one would sacrifice anything and everything (even kill) in order to carry-out God’s will (and this has proven true countless times in the past). But what happens when the rules of one’s faith become obsolete? Continue reading
After reading “Are Humans Obsolete?” and “Learning to Be Me” on the blog today, I read the introduction to Graham’s Representations of the Post/Human. Although the introduction did explore many different aspects of the works that we read for today, it also mentioned during the “Re-Enchantment” sub-heading more about the human agent in creating technology. Continue reading