I think a theory of posthumanism must draw more heavily on aspects of biotechnology. At the time hayles published, human cloning and the GM debate were huge, but she doesn’t touch on these areas.

I don’t recall exactly what I said in the lecture, but i hope it would have been that, by around year 2002, there were no good books on theories of posthumanism. i think this remains true. there have been a series of books, including hayles, which provide parts of the puzzle, but no comprehensive theory of posthumanism that draws together such diverse subjects as artificial intelligence and, say, patenting human dna.

incidentally, i’ve had hayles’ book since it came out, it’s also a core reading on my ‘Becoming Posthuman’ course, which has been running for 8 years. She even blurbed by last book.

(otherwise interesting talk but without that mention it all seems suspect to me)

I was skeptical of the blog format at first (in some part due to the word ‘blog’ itself) but, after building up relationships with my blogs since 2006, I enjoy customising already established templates. I would ideally like to have my own domain sometime in the future, where I can do all sorts of pretty postmodern things, but at the moment I am not financially stable, which makes any kind of ongoing economic commitment impossible.

I can’t imagine any university would object to their academics having their own websites – they should see it as part of being well-rounded!

Something that interests me is how people perceive the interplay between their professional and their personal lives. Where does one end and the other begin?

I’m listening to ’4 the tears in your eyes’ at the moment and it’s great! Will check out some of the others too…

Will the internet be replaced in popularity by something else? Anything is possible, as we are coming up with new technologies all the time. I confess to be happy with the majority of the sites I frequent (esp Facebook, Google & YouTube and Twitter), so I’m all for its continuation, but if something better comes along, I’ll be amongst the first to embrace it.

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Mr Sofroniou (I can’t call him by his first name dammit!) was my form teacher from 1990 to 1994 – in fact I was part of his first ever form class as a newly qualified teacher. He was always supportive and remarkably sensitive to his students.

When we all moved on to pastures new in Summer 1994, he was sorry to see his first form class go and we were sorry to lose him. I’ve seen this picture before a long time ago (it’s no longer on the CNS website – boo!) but it’s really nice to remember again someone I have fond memories of, so thank you for posting this for someone like me to find years later! :)