Posthuman designs By Andy Miah This paper explores the ethics of human enhancement by considering various manifestations of design. It argues that designart enters the biopolitical sphere, thus reconstituting the parameters of moral debates on human enhancements. Drawing on a wide variety of aesthetic forms that engage ethical concerns about such modifications, the paper considers the substantive ethical arguments that are articulated through such artifacts. Multi-limbed Pacific Tree frog
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Posthuman designsBy Andy Miah
This paper explores the ethics of human enhancement by considering various manifestations of design. It argues that designart enters the biopolitical sphere, thus reconstituting the parameters of moral debates on human enhancements. Drawing on a wide variety of aesthetic forms that engage ethical concerns about such modifications, the paper considers the substantive ethical arguments that are articulated through such artifacts.
Multi-limbed Pacific Tree frog
Stelarc: third hand
Stelarc: 1/4 scale ear
Olivier Goulet: Skin
Bob Dylan: We’re different. We come from two different worlds. You come from England; I come from the United States.
Interviewer: That’s true, that’s true, but we’re still human beings, so there’s some sort of connection between us.
Bob Dylan: No, I’m just a guitar player, that’s all.
From the film (1967) Don’t Look Back
The Reactable,designed at University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, used by Bjork on 2008 tour