TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ewa Nowak
PY  - 2020
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631822135
TI  - Advancing the Human Self
T2  - Do Technologies Make Us “Posthuman”?
DO  - 10.3726/b16974
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1063484
N2  - Do technologies advance our self-identities, as they do our bodies, cognitive skills, and the next developmental stage called postpersonal? Did we already manage to be fully human, before becoming posthuman? Are we doomed to disintegration and episodic selfhood? This book examines the impact of radical technopoiesis on our selves from a multidisciplinary perspective, including the health humanities, phenomenology, the life sciences and humanoid AI (artificial intelligence) ethics. Surprisingly, our body representations show more plasticity than scholarly concepts and sociocultural narratives. Our embodied selves can withstand transplants, bionic prostheses and radical somatechnics, but to remain autonomous and authentic, our agential potentials must be strengthened – and this is not through ‘psychosurgery’ and the brain–computer interface.
KW  - self-identity, embodied self, organism, technopoiesis, pothumanism, body image
LA  - English
ER  -