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Is Pedagogy Transhuman? Reflections on the Relationship Between Pedagogy and Transhumanism

open access: yesStudia Paedagogica Ignatiana, 2017
The following contribution aims at discussing the role of pedagogy against the background of a time in which limits are overcome through the use of new technologies. It is argued that pedagogy is in some way itself always related to both the recognition,
Thomas Damberger, Estella Hebert
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The monstrous transformation of the self:translating Japanese cyberpunk and the posthuman into the living world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This essay offers an extended, tangential reading of the cyberpunk videogame, Final Fantasy VII. I will examine itsliterary and visual motifs, patterns and codes, putting these in dialogue with a participant study on cosplay and transformative fandom ...
Mavridou, Orion
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Atypical Morphology and the Normative Limits of Ability and Function [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper largely concerns grounding concepts that inform medical and social theories of impairment. It discusses impairment in relation to normal function, including its identification as deviation from normal health.
Jonathan Paul Mitchell
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On Technics and Technology as a Modification of the Death Drive

open access: yes
Constellations, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 450-463, September 2025.
Lachlan Ross
wiley   +1 more source

The Ironic Transhumanity of William Gibson’s The Peripheral

open access: yesFafnir, 2016
The article discusses transhuman futures in William Gibson’s 2014 novel The Peripheral. Through differing depictions of transhuman characters in two timelines coming into contact, Gibson presents various characters as metaphorical cyborgs.
Esko Suoranta
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Analyse typologique des transhumances ovines de la région de Djelfa : Quel type pour quel avenir [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
La transhumance constitue une pratique courante de l'elevage ovin agropastoral. Elle permet l'acces a des patures supplementaires. Toutefois, cette pratique qui contribue a l'equilibre des systemes alimentaires connait des difficultes. Pour se maintenir,
Bellahrache, Ahmed   +4 more
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State education as high-yield investment: human capital theory in European policy discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Human Capital Theory has been an increasingly important phenomenon in economic thought over the last 50 years. The central role it affords to education has become even more marked in recent years as the concept of the ‘knowledge economy’ has become a ...
A. Giddens   +57 more
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Extending the Transhuman Person: Religious Practices as Cognitive Technological Enhancements

open access: yesReligions
Transhumanism embraces the use of technology to enhance human capabilities. In keeping with traditional theories of cognition, transhumanists typically assume that mental capacities are organism-bound (or brain-bound), and enhancement is thus achieved ...
Tobias Tanton
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Brave New Worlds: Transcending the Humanities/STEM Divide through Creative Writing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Creative writing offers a critical and innovative form of inquiry promoting integrative learning that transcends disciplinary barriers. Authors first provide an overview of the scholarship on creative writing pedagogy, its unique capacity to engage a ...
Tehrani, Zahra, Watkins, Adam
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Utopias and Dystopias as Cybernetic Information Systems: Envisioning the Posthuman Neuropolity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
While it is possible to understand utopias and dystopias as particular kinds of sociopolitical systems, in this text we argue that utopias and dystopias can also be understood as particular kinds of information systems in which data is received, stored ...
Gladden, Matthew E.
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