Kristin Scott

Ever since the beginning of time, or the moment in which the bodies of Adam and Eve were exposed to the shame of nakedness, humans have been struggling with issues around the organic body and its products. The organic body is messy, vulnerable, and a constant reminder of our mortality. Inherent within the organic body [...]

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I’ve been aware and vaguely familiar with the terms posthumanism and transhumanism, but have not yet had an opportunity to explore either in any depth. From what I gather so far (and I admit to being a newbie to both concepts), becoming transhuman seems to be a necessary first step to becoming posthuman. The prefixes [...]

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I have a former student, Paul Sernatinger, that sends me very cool links every now and then, and he recently sent me some really interesting ones. I was particularly struck by how researchers at Osaka University, in Japan, for example are in the process of developing robotic body parts that will be controlled by thoughts [...]

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