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Project--Thinking Through Posthumanism Main Menu Machinic Autopoiesis and the Edge of Posthuman Morality Towards Machine Morality and Posthuman Ethical Blindspots Situated Knowledge and Personal Insertions Following the Posthuman Approach to Understanding A Light Introduction to Machine Ethics Machinic Autopoiesis and the Post-Anthropocentric Turn in Machine Ethics The Autopoietic Machine as the Posthuman Ethical Subject "I am, in fact, a person" Artificial Intelligence and the Increasing Declaration of Autonomous Digital Sentience Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me and the Perplexity of a Posthuman Machine Ethics Illustration by Ana Galvañ for the New Yorker ChatGPT and Machinic Self-Understanding of the Posthuman Machine Morality Paradox Annotated Bibliography Project Proposal--Machinic Autopoieisis and the Edge of Posthuman Morality Towards Machine Morality and Posthuman Ethical Blindspots

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Situated Knowledge and Personal Insertions This project emerged out of a very specific, situated knowledge position as a white woman coming of age in the global north at the time of the advanced information age. Posthumanist knowledge issues from the critical understanding of the multi-layered relationality that informs all practices of knowledge-making. Donna Haraway introduced the concept of situated knowledge as a feminist epistemological practice whose critical positionality would challenge the "conquering gaze" of hegemonic knowledge "from nowhere" (Haraway 581). Universal epistemological constructions are dismantled with positional epistemological accountability. Situated knowledge concerns itself with domains which are circumscribed in material constellations, rather than transcendental realms of 'eternal truth.' Acknowledging my privileged location, this project initially began as a sort of thought experiment to overcome my deep fears of the 'technological other' that have been so profoundly influenced by anxious Western cultural constructions of machine intelligence as apocalyptic harbingers of human extinction or displacement.
Realizing how intensely mediated and manufactured my technophobic bias has been by products of the culture industry from books like Frankenstein to popular films such as The Terminator, has been one of the major epiphanies I've been brought to during my time grappling with conceptions of posthumanism. Dismantling that man/machine dichotomy trafficking the mystification of the real reality of techno-human hybridity in contemporary society is crucial to this project as I examine what an ethics for human-machine interdependence might look like.