posthuman designs
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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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-RhyopUmc&feature=related
the bionic athlete
TED FRIEDMANN(WADA Gene Therapy)
H. LEE SWEENEY(IGF-1 mice)
Tommy John’s Surgery
Oscar Pistorius, Cheetah legs
Aimee Mullins, Photo by Nick Knight
Cremaster 3, Matthew Barney (dir)
design
Telephone tooth implantAuger & Loizeau
bioethics and culture
The ethics of stem cell research
Fukuyama, F. and F. Furger (2007). Beyond Bioethics: A Proposal for
Modernizing the Regulation of Human Biotechnologies. Washington, D.C.
“there are several deeply held alternative views on this issue, over
which it is not likely that there will be consensus any time in the near
future”
‘we cannot survey the possibilities we cannot imagine’ (Sorenson)
We cannot apply our imagination far enough without thinking about enhancement questions
To conclude