Alexandra Sastre

Ph.D. candidateUniversity of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication

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Being with Her: Sex Without Bodies

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Alexandra Sastre University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication

January 21, 2015
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Being with Her: Sex Without Bodies Spike Jonze posthumanism and media posthumanism posthuman Her Curator's Note Posthumanism is intimately tied to a history of cybernetics (Hayles, 1999); the organic body is no longer the sole possible site of life, ...

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Re: Being with Her: Sex Without Bodies

Edmond you raised really

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Alexandra Sastre University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication

Thursday, January 22, 2015 — 5:26 pm
Edmond you raised really salient, critical questions, and think you're spot on in your reference to the central polemic Dibbell brings up in his ethnography. I think too it is important to parse out how, within the universe of Her, bodies are related ...
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Re: Tracing the Post-Human impulse: Confessions of the Messenger

Posthumanism and madness

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Alexandra Sastre University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication

Monday, January 19, 2015 — 8:14 pm
Thanks Jason! I think your suggestions to both look to the "birth" of posthuman transformation and to link said transformation to depictions of madness are quite powerful. For me, the later in particular brings up salient thoughts on both what p ...