{"id":511,"date":"2016-02-08T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T03:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/?p=511"},"modified":"2016-02-08T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T03:00:29","slug":"wearables-week-2-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Wearables, Week 2: Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading &#8220;Design For All-Life&#8221; reminded me of Rosi Braidotti&#8217;s text, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Posthuman-Rosi-Braidotti\/dp\/074564158X\">The Post-Human<\/a>. Moving away from human-centered thinking to considering our relationship with the rest of the world, but also acknowledging that the way we&#8217;ve often thought about <strong>the <\/strong>human as a white, western, able-bodied Male.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2014\/02\/18\/article-0-065A4CA3000005DC-97_634x607.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thinking in terms of the post-human would not simply re-orient towards considering the larger biosphere but also consciously bring in oppressed and marginalized groups so often seen as subhuman\/subaltern.<\/p>\n<p>I find it interesting that both of the non-technical readings mentioned that humans have particular affinities, love even, for generalized categories &#8211; in &#8220;Design For All&#8221; it says for living things and in &#8220;Why The Human Body Will Be The Next Computer Interface&#8221; Fjord\u00a0says humans are built to desire communion with the man-made world. Are we simply built to love everything to some extent? Or is it something to do with movement? or that the things we make are made in nature&#8217;s image and we give them life-like characteristics?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading &#8220;Design For All-Life&#8221; reminded me of Rosi Braidotti&#8217;s text, The Post-Human. Moving away from human-centered thinking to considering our relationship with the rest of the world, but also acknowledging that the way we&#8217;ve often thought about the human as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/?p=511\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[9,100,84],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wearables","tag-design","tag-posthuman","tag-wearables"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}