HUMANS is highly polysemic - it has many meanings. This means that it appeals to a wider audience and that it it very dense. However, this means that it is quite hard to understand. Donna Harraway - "we are all chimeras, theorised and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism" : here she is saying that people's lives are so influenced by the technology we use, and things which help us to become more advanced. The use of technology in society helps us within life in order to improve the way we think, feel and do things in order to make our lives more convenient. Globalisation is something that we rely on a lot in the modern world because products are made and imported from other countries to our own. In the other countries, they are made using technology (i.e machines) and transported using technology ( i.e. trucks). This displays how much human beings rely on technology and that it truly is becoming a part of us. WHAT DOES BEING HUMAN MEAN? - we are much mor...
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