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Society for Phenomenology

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Algorithmic tumult and the brilliance of Chelsea Manning

Matthew Fuller

pp. 81-89

Abstract

The term posthuman is sometimes used to denote a supercession of the human by means of multiple kinds of enhancement: with the brain and sensual organs becoming part of a service core providing key emotional, reflexive and phenomenological glue to a more advanced cognitive, immunological and performance-enhanced superstructure. Sleek persons with complex electromagnetic auras perform labour, proceduralise compensatory erotic behaviours, and divine important subatomic truths with a glance of their analytically enhanced irises. In the future they will have gone through so many upgrades that not even their souls have an end-user license agreement to neutrally click “okay” on every time they awake to feel their veins squirted with artisan meta-smoothie.

Publication details

Published in:

Åsberg Cecilia, Braidotti Rosi (2018) A feminist companion to the posthumanities. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 81-89

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62140-1_7

Full citation:

Fuller Matthew (2018) „Algorithmic tumult and the brilliance of Chelsea Manning“, In: C. Åsberg & R. Braidotti (eds.), A feminist companion to the posthumanities, Dordrecht, Springer, 81–89.