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| The Cyborg (Fe)Man/ual |
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| Other Bits and Pieces Since completing the (Fe)Man/ual, people have come up with other things to add to it, so this page is to add ongoing finds, thoughts, and things that students have come up with after the completion of the class project. June 23, 2004 (From Laura Jacobs) Well, I know it's getting a little late for this sort of thing, but this is the project that never ends, right? But I was reading Scientific American today, and there was a quote from HG Wells from 100 years ago that was so apropos of our (Fe)Man/ual I had to send it around. Maybe we could add it somehow? Or is it time to let go? I've been doing alot of letting go these days, but that's my personal life. long story. Either way, enjoy. L "We of the early twentieth century, and particularly that growing majority of us who have been born since the Origin of the Species was written, percieve that man, and all the world of men, is no more than the present phase of a development so great and splendid that beside this vision all the exploits of humanity shrivel in the proportion of castles in the sand. We look back through countless millions of years and see the great will to live struggling out of the intertidal slime. We turn again toward the future, surely any thought of finality, any millenial sentiment, has vanished from our minds. The question what is to come after man is the most persistently fascinating and the most insoluble question in the whole world." -Herbert George Wells, originally from Scientific American, July 1904, reprinted in Scientific American July 2004, pg 18 July 19, 2004 (from Ivy Blackman) Ivy is currently travelling in Europe, and sent me this postcard of the Golem from Prague. How very fortunate February 10, 2005 (from Laura Jacobs) Hey all... Guess what? I've been getting emails from a guy in Germany about the Cyborg project. He found the site out of the blue and has been asking me questions about it. I'm trying to help him think about the issues we raised about personhood and identity. It's hard to tell through his broken english what's getting across, but I thought it was pretty amazing that someone out there found it and is interested. My only concern is what happens after my SLC email is gone, since all the links on my page point to that? Oh well. Thought you all might want to know. Anyone else out there get anything? L -- |
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