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Re:Smooth Talk by qznc on Thursday November 02, 2017 @01:07PM (#15612210)
> If language is figured as the original prosthesis inaugurating humanity, proofreading technologies become disciplinary apparatuses modulating neoliberalism’s posthuman subject.

My try to parse it:

If language made us human, proofreading tech makes us post-human.

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Re:Smooth Talk by microcolonel on Thursday November 02, 2017 @01:18PM (#15612303)
The disconnect here, which explains the style of the article and the nature of the advice, is the assumption that human technology could lend a post-human quality.

I'd say that the human technology is more human than any individual human, because it is closer to the humanist ideal than to any individual.

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