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Transforming the Human: Algorithms, Intuition and Networked Activism

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/10/2019
<mark>Journal</mark>The Thinker
Issue number4
Volume82
Number of pages10
Pages (from-to)22-31
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date1/06/19
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

In the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, digital, smart and algorithmic technologies, it is claimed, may be fundamentally transforming ‘the human’. They may, that is, be radically re-mediating human senses, habits and capacities. In Thumbelina (2015), for example, the late French philosopher and media theorist Michel Serres argues that millennials are not only the first generation to experience the internet and related forms of digital media in their adolescence, they have also been comprehensively ‘[re]-formatted by the media’, and, thus, ‘no longer have the same body or behavior’ as previous generations (2015: 5-6).