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Technology, Self, and Society

NEH-funded Seminar @ LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
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July 14, 2015

Final reflection on seminar and LIB200

I’m so excited to be teaching LIB200 again in the fall, and to bring in some of the insights from the NEH Technology, Self, Society seminar. I am going to stick with my LIB200 post-apocalyptic fiction and film theme, but …

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by Christopher Schmidt
  • Final reflection 2015 June
June 19, 2015

It’s Me!

Just for fun see if you can recognize anyone in the first 2 minutes of this video from Morgan Freeman’s Through the Wormhole episode on David Chalmers:

 

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by Richard Brown
  • Final reflection 2015 June
June 19, 2015

Hello, Fellow Explorers!

Even though I am not teaching LIB 200, I believe that engaging with the concepts related to technology, self and society is a crucial part of what educators need to do at this time. My interests grow from several starting …

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by Priscilla Stadler
  • Final reflection 2015 June
June 19, 2015

Phyllis’s Intro Post

Today in our first seminar I learned some things about defining trans and post humanism–I also learned that we come from such different backgrounds that this should be super interesting.  Themes that caught my attention the most included Evelyn’s discussion …

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by Phyllis van Slyck (she/her)
  • Intro Post: 2015-16 Cohort
June 19, 2015

Intro Post

Hello, hello!

I’m Shannon Proctor, an assistant professor in Humanities at LaGuardia and teach courses in the Philosophy Program. My research concerns the ways in which habits simultaneously engender and inhibit our abilities to transform/become new. I am particularly interested …

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by Shannon Proctor
  • Intro Post: 2015-16 Cohort
June 19, 2015

Ana’s Post

In preparation to my return (from a parallel world or two) to LIB200, I plan to explore how the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics regarding multiple parallel worlds relates to several stories of Borges, Cortazar, and other writers of the …

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by Ana Maria Hernandez
  • Intro Post: 2015-16 Cohort
June 19, 2015

Technology, Self and Society

Hi,

I’m Evelyn.  Having studied Philosophy in the 1970s when AI was just beginning and then History in the 1990s when Pragmatism a la Nietzsche in the 1990s was popular, I have been forced to think about the formation of …

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by Evelyn Burg (she/her/hers/they/theirs)
  • Intro Post: 2015-16 Cohort
June 19, 2015

Charles’ intro

Hello all,

It’s such a pleasure to be able to participate in this seminar!  As a biologist who studies basic neuroscience questions, I’m particularly interested in how technological advances, particularly in the realms of biology and neuroscience, are changing conceptions …

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by Charles Keller
  • Intro Post: 2015-16 Cohort
June 19, 2015

Intro – Rebekah Johnson

Hi everyone,

I am in the Education & Language Acquisition Department and am really excited to be working with all of you from such diverse backgrounds and different disciplines!  I feel like I will learn a lot this coming year!…

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by Rebekah Johnson (she/her)
  • Intro Post: 2015-16 Cohort
June 19, 2015

First Post

Christian Gonzales

My interest in taking this seminar revolves around exploring ideas connected to the meaning of human within a transhuman world. I am especially interested in learning how others define and see the evolving meanings of human. I also …

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by Christian Gonzales
  • Intro Post: 2015-16 Cohort
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