In her essay “A Cyborg Manifesto,” theorist Donna Haraway writes: “By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.” That was 1985, and it laid the groundwork for a world with blurred borders and boundaries between both artificial intelligence and animals. Welcome to post-humanism, an idea born of and for the digital age. About the Speaker:
Greg Salyer, Ph.D. is the President of the Philosophical Research Society. For twenty-five years, he has been an administrator and scholar in higher education institutions, but his highest calling has always been that of teacher. Trained in interdisciplinary studies, Dr. Salyer moves through the disciplines of literature, philosophy, and religious studies looking for and helping his students find practical and profound wisdom in the stories, texts, and ideas created all over the world and throughout history.
About the series:
It is not hyperbole to say that technology has never been more integrated into our lives as human beings, but it is also true that such deep integration calls into question the nature of being human. Join us for a six-week lecture/discussion series that examines our fraught relationship with technology and comes to terms with what it means to be human in the digital age through the following questions: What ancient concepts and stories speak to our conflicted and intimate relationship with the tools we use that in turn use us? What is the status of truth in the digital age? How does technology employ and redistribute power? How does technology change our favorite emotion—love? What about the seeker in the digital age? Finally, what do human beings and being human mean in an age of artificial intelligence and cyborgs?
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Image credit: 17th-century relief with a Cretan labyrinth bottom right (Musée Antoine Vivenel)
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