Features

XXIX.1 January - February 2022
Page: 64
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Blurryism: Messing with dualisms through design


Authors:
Matthew Lee-Smith

The posthuman movement, a broad term that can be seen as including topics such as posthumanism, post-anthropocentrism, transhumanism, new materialism, and object-orientated ontology, is going from strength to strength. A glance at the Google Books Ngram Viewer graph of the term posthuman shows a sharp positive trend from the 1990s. Design and HCI journals, conferences, and books are also seeing increasing use of this and associated terms such as more-than-human design or animal-computer interaction. The posthuman movement challenges our position in the world, our self-appointed exceptionalism, and demonstrates that the line between us and everything else in the universe…




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