- Title
- The Political Ontology of Cyborgs: Considering Implications of Posthumanism for Education
- Creator
- Buchanan, Rachel; Chapman, Amy
- Relation
- Creative Approaches to Research Vol. 7, Issue 1, p. 7-20
- Relation
- http://aqr.org.au/publications/creative-approaches-to-research
- Publisher
- The International Association for Qualitative Research (IAQR)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Purpose: As education continues to expound the virtues of digital technologies much less attention has been paid to the social and political implications of this increasingly digital life. We offer this paper as a starting point for a dialogue around the intersection of digital identity and the political in the context of education as a way to re-think 'Being' and technology in more explicitly political terms. Design/Methodology/Approach: The argumentation in this paper is developed through a critical examination of constructions of youth identity, education and digital culture. Through a specific focus on the work of Haraway (1991) we begin to develop a space for researching the political dimensions of being Cyborgs, a space necessary if we are to explore the possibilities for radical democratic education in a technologically satured world. Findings: Alternate conceptualizations of digital identity are possible which offer ways of understanding and politicizing what happens when we impose computer-generated realities into people's lives. The quest to change the relationship between individuals as political beings and technology has at its foundation recognition of the stake we all have in the technology/politics connection. We offer the position that the cyborg is a worthy starting point for a posthuman interrogation of education and its current purposes and the imposition of ICT in the lives of young people.
- Subject
- education; ICT; being; posthuman; politics; cyborg; subjectivity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1295082
- Identifier
- uon:18938
- Identifier
- ISSN:1835-9442
- Language
- eng
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