Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, "We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism" (Bristol UP, 2023)
New Books in Anthropology
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The Dualistic Understanding of Who We Are
This is part also of the revised understanding of who we are, that sort of our nature, culture understanding is highly implausible. And thereby by taking these problematic dualities into consideration, it's also a way of moving away from all the types of discrimination, which go along with these dualities. So here we see clock, brightness as being good darkness as being as being bad. This is racism already being in the, you know, in our past being part of our encrusting structures of our, of our cultures. Here we see sexism as being part of this longstanding cultural history. Furthermore, rationality is something which has traditionally been held only by human beings. They were solely material entities
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