What exactly is the human element separating humans from animals
and machines? The common answers that immediately come to
mind--like art, empathy, or technology--fall apart under close
inspection. Dominic Pettman argues that it is a mistake to define
such rigid distinctions in the first place, and the most decisive
"human error" may be the ingrained impulse to understand ourselves
primarily in contrast to our other worldly companions.
In "Human Error," Pettman describes the three sides of the
cybernetic triangle--human, animal, and machine--as a rubric for
understanding key figures, texts, and sites where our species-being
is either reinforced or challenged by our relationship to our own
narcissistic technologies. Consequently, species-being has become a
matter of "specious"-being, in which the idea of humanity is not
only a case of mistaken identity but indeed the mistake of
identity.
"Human Error" boldly insists on the necessity of relinquishing our
anthropomorphism but also on the extreme difficulty of doing so,
given how deeply this attitude is bound with all our other most
cherished beliefs about forms of life.
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