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Abstract
[Editor's Introduction]
Setting a posthuman ethics as a goal toward which the collaboration of posthumanism and ethics must move, Yi in his essay, "Toward a Posthuman Ethics," points out that the collaboration is detained because current debates on the cyborg harbor on the question of representations and consider how political, social and cultural problems of the human are reconfigured, and possibly resolved, by the cyborg. Thus, the debates are bound to be retrospective in approach and circular in direction, as they fail to recognize new possibilities that the cyborg may present. Arguing that the failure indicates the cyborg is being understood only as representational or as partial (meaning, as of human-extensions), and believing that such recognition should come with the presence of a fully conscious cyborg, Yi's essay postulates the real-world existence of Yod, a cyborg in Marge Piercy's He, She and It, and examines how its existence could affect three philosophical areas of the current debates on the cyborg.
Repository Citation
Yi, Dongshin. "Toward a Posthuman Ethics." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 4, no. 3, 2004, pp. 1–13. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol4/iss3/5
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