Issue 2, 2012

A Cartography of the Posthuman

Tamar Sharon

Biography

Tamar Sharon

Tamar Sharon is a research fellow in the Philosophy Department and STS Group at Maastricht University. The essay is based on her forthcoming book on posthumanist discourse and human enhancement technologies. She is currently working on a Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Re- search (NWO) funded project that looks at how users engage with emer- ging health technologies in ways that resist and reinterpret dominant dis- courses of health as personal responsibility.