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On the edges of consciousnesses: Messaging between species 在意识的边缘:物种之间的信息传递

Technoetic Arts Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1386/tear_00080_1

Mari Keski-Korsu

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On gods, pixies and humans: Biohacking and the genetic imaginary 论神、精灵和人类:生物黑客和基因想象

Technoetic Arts Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1386/tear_00086_1

M. Szewczyk

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Lévinas’s débâcle: Looking for the face(s) of the human in the twenty-first century Lévinas的débâcle：寻找二十一世纪人类的面孔

Technoetic Arts Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1386/tear_00082_1

M. Murawska

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Why cyborgs necessarily feel 为什么赛博格一定会有感觉

Technoetic Arts Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1386/tear_00081_1

K. Gärtner

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What does it mean to be human? The faces of the human in the twenty-first century 作为人类意味着什么?二十一世纪人类的面孔

Technoetic Arts Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1386/tear_00077_2

M. Michałowska

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Vulnerability as a queer art 脆弱是一种酷儿艺术

Technoetic Arts Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1386/tear_00084_1

M. Pevere

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In favour of a hedonist post-pandemic culture: Embodying new technologies and old rituals 支持享乐主义的后疫情文化：体现新技术和旧仪式

Technoetic Arts Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1386/tear_00079_1

Yvonne Förster

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The human being as an engineering problem: Post-biological evolution, transhumanism and philosophical anthropology 作为工程问题的人类:后生物进化、超人类主义与哲学人类学

Technoetic Arts Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1386/tear_00083_1

David O Brien

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Contamination as collaboration: Being-with in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic 污染即协作:COVID-19大流行时期的“与”

Technoetic Arts Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1386/tear_00087_1

K. Żyniewicz

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Being otherwise: On the possibility of a non-dualistic approach in feminist phenomenology 否则：论女性主义现象学中非二元方法的可能性

Technoetic Arts Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1386/tear_00078_1

Marzena Adamiak

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