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Digital Bodies, Digital Labor:Digital Bodies, Digital Labor:

De/Reconstructing the Post-human SubjectDe/Reconstructing the Post-human Subject

Brittany ChozinskiBrittany Chozinski

The Internet as Factory and PlaygroundThe Internet as Factory and PlaygroundNew York, November 2009New York, November 2009

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The Liberal HumanThe Liberal Human

SubjectSubjectPossessive individualismPossessive individualism

State of nature to market relationsState of nature to market relations

Selling ones own laborSelling ones own labor

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Turing TestTuring Test

Intelligence and embodimentIntelligence and embodiment

Enacted and represented bodiesEnacted and represented bodies

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MoravecMoravec

Identity as informational patternIdentity as informational pattern

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Why the body?Why the body?

Zone ofZone ofindeterminacyindeterminacy

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DiscursiveDiscursive

Formations of theFormations of theBodyBody

Benjamin and KracauerBenjamin and Kracauer

Digital dedifferentiationDigital dedifferentiation

HeterotopiaHeterotopia

Becoming virtualBecoming virtual

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Cognitive AbsorptionCognitive Absorption

The zoneThe zone

BatesonsBatesonsregenerativeregenerative

systemssystems

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Organisms TodayOrganisms Today

Fields ofFields of

differencedifference

Modulation inModulation in

response toresponse to

environmentenvironment

Societies ofSocieties of

controlcontrol

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Concluding RemarksConcluding Remarks

Brittany ChozinsBrittany Chozins

chozib08@newschool.edchozib08@newschool.ed