Author : Amanda du Preez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443815413
Gendered Bodies and New Technologies by Amanda du Preez Pdf
In this era of ubiquitous information flow, heightened mobility and limitless consumer convenience, human interaction with new technologies has become increasingly seamless. In the process, the human body is effectively and steadily reduced to just another interface, or a “second life”, so to speak. What is easily forgotten during this translucent transaction is that being human also necessarily implies being embodied. In other words, to constitute a body in its non-negotiable physicality is still what it entails to be human (amongst other things). To live daily in and through the complicated and dynamic intersection between “mind” and “body”, psychology and physiology―also known as embodiment―is what makes us human.