Boundary
I thought the Katherine Hayles article was pretty captivating. What struck me in this article is the concept of ‘boundary’.
As she gives a definition on posthuman – the posthuman subject is an amalgam, a collection of heterogeneous components, a material-informational entity whose boundaries undergo continuous construction and reconstruction – I think key is our interaction with these boundaries. Boundaries shift, mutate, engage, can be sharp and fuzzy. Embodiment itself implies a boundary and ‘erasure of embodiment’ similarly implies to me a distinction of where embodiment is defined, and where it might dissolve.
Boundaries indicate an environment in which there is a manifestation of boundary. This environment can be material (matter) and immaterial (information) and again considering a separation of these, as Hayles is discussing, involves the idea of boundary. The idea of abstraction to multiplicy seems impossible, unless there is a boundary.
All this is pretty complex, I get lost in the reflexivity!
[ I find it takes a lot of re-readings to digest, hope to do more on this]
“The idea of abstraction to multiplicy seems impossible, unless there is a boundary”
the cyborg => posthuman body => (found) body of information =>
(Hayles, 1999)
Virtually defines boundary – Virtually is an invention of the (lost) body of information to possibly (find) the body of information. The argument must be – is how we describe Virtually – the relationship between the analogue domain and Digital (information) domain. There are new forms of ‘Binary’ which translate thought, the process of thought / notion and relation to image and metaphor as translators of information is vital (possible telepathy). This has massive implications for learning and teaching!!!!
Should have been!
(lost) body of information => the cyborg => posthuman body => (found) body of information =>
(Hayles, 1999)