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…
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Diedrich's work on disability technology and embodiment appears in readings examining how assistive devices like wheelchairs function not as external aids but as genuine extensions or integrations of the body itself. The citations leverage Diedrich's argument to complicate notions of human-machine boundaries, suggesting that the distinction between body and tool dissolves in lived experience—a crucial move for thinking about how AI and cybernetic systems might integrate with human subjectivity beyond metaphor. This directly supports the course's investigation of how technologies reshape what we consider "human" and "self" in an age of pervasive computation.
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