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Slavoj Žižek recently weighed in on the proliferation of theories of the posthuman when he summarized as follows:
Furthermore, a whole school of cyberspace theorists advocate the notion that cyberspace phenomena render palpable in our everyday experience the deconstructionist “decentered subject”: one should endorse the “dissemination” of the unique Self into a multiplicity of competing agents, into a “collective mind,” a plurality of self-images without a global coordinating center, which is operative in cyberspace, and disconnect it from pathological trauma—playing in virtual spaces enables me to discover new aspects of “me,” a wealth of shifting identities, of masks without a “real” person behind, and thus to experience the ideological mechanism of the production of Self, the immanent violence and arbitrariness of this production/construction. (25)
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Brown, J.A. (2010). Conclusion. In: Cyborgs in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230109773_7
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