Abou farman biography for kids
Farman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research..
Abou Ali Farman Farmaian was born in Tehran, Iran and came to Canada as a child in He is an artist, screenwriter and anthropologist.
1. Today, the human is prefixed, always shadowed in an academic forum such as this by its post-, trans-, in-, and non-.
a. Machines and animals keep crossing the boundaries of the human. Literally crossing, as all kinds of devices and creatures, from bacteria to pacemakers, work and live inside what was once imagined as an epidermally contained being, whose skin-bound, individual, and sovereign self was meant to be the apotheosis of modern humanity.
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By Abou Farman.And functionally crossing, too, as scientists keep discovering nonhuman animals doing quite a bit of thinking, feeling, lying, and manipulating symbols, all once thought to be the exclusive capacities of the human.
c. It’s this fuzziness of the boundaries of the human figure that have made room for the post-, trans-, in-, and non- of the human; the human’s prefixes appear in those places where the humanist domain of exclusivity is breached.
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So today, the human is the paradoxical figure that knows itself through its own negat