http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2010/05/my-creator-my-creation/ A literary journal of writing from and about Finland. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2010/05/my-creator-my-creation/comment-page-1/#comment-1290 TIINA RAEVAARA: where science and surrealism meet « Meet the Artists Blog Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:59:15 +0000 http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/?p=7212#comment-1290 [...] “En tunne sinua vierelläni” (I don’t feel you beside me, 2010) is a collection of short novels each marked by a phantasmagoric character of its own. One of them, “My creator, my creation” (available in English – http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2010/05/my-creator-my-creation/) is about a woman robot and her relation with a male human being, her “creator”. [...] [...] “En tunne sinua vierelläni” (I don’t feel you beside me, 2010) is a collection of short novels each marked by a phantasmagoric character of its own. One of them, “My creator, my creation” (available in English – http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2010/05/my-creator-my-creation/) is about a woman robot and her relation with a male human being, her “creator”. [...]

]]> http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/2010/05/my-creator-my-creation/comment-page-1/#comment-527 Emily Jeremiah Fri, 28 May 2010 14:23:08 +0000 http://www.booksfromfinland.fi/?p=7212#comment-527 Intriguing... Fiction for the posthuman age? Brings to mind Rosi Braidotti (whom I heard speak in Helsinki last week), and Donna Haraway's 'cyborg'. The challenge to the mind/body split is a knowing riposte to the Western philosophical and scientific tradition, suggesting 'ways of knowing' (Evelyn Fox Keller) not dependent on Cartesian dualism and the fetishization of apparently disembodied rationality. There's also here a reflection on (gendered) creativity... Thanks for this! Intriguing… Fiction for the posthuman age? Brings to mind Rosi Braidotti (whom I heard speak in Helsinki last week), and Donna Haraway’s ‘cyborg’. The challenge to the mind/body split is a knowing riposte to the Western philosophical and scientific tradition, suggesting ‘ways of knowing’ (Evelyn Fox Keller) not dependent on Cartesian dualism and the fetishization of apparently disembodied rationality. There’s also here a reflection on (gendered) creativity… Thanks for this!

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