the sight of myself hunched in its black framework of aluminum and plastic” (p. 46). In her Quickie P100, Mairs is at one and the same time positioned and situated in the world. (Diedrich 2001, 218–19)Diedrich points out that for Mairs the Quickie P100 is not merely a bodily auxillary but an integral part of Mairs’s body. I want to suggest that there may be important intertwined ontological and ethical points to be made here that go beyo…
Diedrich
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Diedrich appears in this seminar primarily through disability studies critique of technology's relationship to embodiment, specifically analyzing how mobility devices like wheelchairs constitute the body rather than merely augmenting it. The readings invoke Diedrich's work to support an argument that the boundary between tool and body is ontologically unstable—a move that becomes crucial for thinking about prosthetics, AI systems, and other technologies that blur human-machine distinction. This reframing matters for "Pandaemonium Architecture" because it suggests that claims about AI "extending" human cognition or "augmenting" capability need to reckon with how technologies actually reconstitute what we are, not just what we can do.
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