Transgressive Black Female Selfhood

Hacking as Transgressive Infrastructuring

This paper applies the theoretical lens of infrastructure to study hacking practices that take issue with large-scale communica­ tion networks. The paper analyzes a series of hacks targeting the Global System for Mobile Communications (i.e., networks for mobile telephony) carried out by a cluster of people af­ filiated or sympathetic to the German Chaos Computer Club between 2001 and 2014. Thes...

Selfhood, Identity and Personality Styles

Reflections on Selfhood and Embodiment

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST FRIGHTENING CONDITION that faces the aging population in the twenty-first century, a much-feared stigmatizing label that carries with it a sentence of social death. The lay media are replete with descriptions of Alzheimer’s such as a “living death,” “unbecoming” a self, and a “drifting towards the threshold of unbeing.” Even the US federal govern...

Technology, selfhood and physical disability.

Much has been written in recent times of the interface between technologies and the human body. The vast majority of this literature, however, focuses on a body that is assumed to be free of physical disability. This article seeks to address this lacuna by presenting findings from an exploratory study using in-depth interviews with fifteen people with physical disabilities living in the Austral...

Full-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood.

We highlight the latest research on body perception and self-consciousness, but argue that despite these achievements, central aspects have remained unexplored, namely, global aspects of bodily self-consciousness. Researchers investigated central representations of body parts and actions involving these, but neglected the global and unitary character of self-consciousness, the 'I' of experience...