Transcending embodiment: communication in the posthuman condition

• Thomas S. Frentz ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Arkansas
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 79, nº 1, 2014, págs. 59-72
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication , John Durham Peters argues that soul merger between humans is impossible because communication could never transcend the existential barrier between self and other. I contest Peters’ argu- ment by constructing my own history starting from where Peters’ history leaves off. I show how disembodied communication is imagined in William Gibson’s classic science fiction novel, Neuromancer , how cyberfeminist artists import embodiment into virtual realities, and how Ray Kurzweil’s “the Singularity,” the notion that in our not-too-distant future humans will evolve into machines, makes posthuman communication a coming reality.