It starts with a simple reflection… Do you want to be taught by holograms?
Posthumanism: A Guerilla Course
Technological advances have a direct effect on the human being’s material existence and self-understanding. Our Enlightenment understanding of what it is to be a human, what we are responsible for, is changing fast with the emergence of AI, distributed cognition and social media networks. We shall share our thoughts on these changes, learn a little of the concepts needed to discuss them and produce our own responses.
To join in (either in person or virtually), and find out when the sessions will be, either scan the codes or visit the . Check out the blog and feel free to sign up and share thoughts even if you won’t be at the sessions. Start by commenting on whether you would be happy to be taught by a hologram.
Sessions will be held at the University of Malta as follows:
Friday 8 March 2024 – 11:00 to 13:00 and 14:00 – 15:00
Monday 11 March 2024 – 10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 – 15:00
Wednesday 13 March 2024 – 11:00 – 13:00
NB: Exact timings will be published in due course. There will be no assessment but you may have the possibility to publish in the blog and that can include a group or team podcast, video or a written piece (useful to show to friends, family, would be employers...)
Speaker Biography
, Professor of Social Ethics at Newcastle University.
David Edward Rose is Professor of Social Ethics and a teacher and scholar of philosophy who is interested in transformative learning practices and the development of context-based learning.
Context-based learning is a pedagogy which defines all learners as tyro-researchers and asserts the role of education as a response to the personal needs of the individual learner and society. Students as co-producers of knowledge and encouraged to engage with cultural and material reality in critical ways. These projects allow students to take control of their own direction, affirm the value of traditional academic disciplines, determine learning through the coincidence of the interests of student, teacher and institution and offer the possibility of a newly constructed “universal” education equal to but different from Newman’s idea of the university.
David Rose was awarded his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow with a dissertation on Hegel's conception of freedom. Hr received an MA in Continental Philosophy from the University of Warwick and read Literature and Philosophy (Joint) for his BA(Hons) at the University of East Anglia.
