Dis 3

Carefully read The Chicago School of Media Theory on “posthumanism” and Steven Poole’s article “Slaves to the Algorithm,” and ask one of your research questions and answer it as if posthumanism were a technology instead of a concept or movement. In other words, treat posthumanism as a new technology or technological way of being. You may choose whatever question you feel is most relevant. Please only reference the two sources above and refrain from personal opinions. Your post should try to avoid first-person pronouns and, as always, any badly written posts (i. e., clearly not proofread) will be downgraded. All quotes and paraphrases necessitate full citations. Your comments need to critically address the student's post, not simply reiterate what is in the articles.

 Articles:

1: https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/posthuman/

2: https://aeon.co/essays/which-decisions-should-we-leave-to-algorithms

Choose one or two from these questions:

1. What is the problem for which this technology is the solution?

2. Whose problem is it?

3. Which people and what institutions might be most seriously harmed by a technological solution?

4. What new problems might be created because we have solved this problem?

5. What sort of people and institutions might acquire special economic and political power because of technological change?

6. What changes in language are being enforced by new technologies, and what is being gained and lost by such changes?