Via BoingBoing: Finnish (or Estonian? can’t tell) blogger Kaksoisagentti remixes Cory Doctorow’s copylefted Ebooks: Neither E nor Books to produce “Posthumans: Neither E, Nor Humans”:

I take the view that the human is a “practice” — a collection of social and economic and artistic activities — and not an "object." Viewing the human as a “practice” instead of an object is a pretty radical notion, and it begs the question: just what the hell is a human? — Brewster Kahle’s Internet Humanmobile can convert a digital human into a four-color, full-bleed, perfect-bound, laminated-cover, printed-spine flesh human in ten minutes, for about a dollar. Try converting a flesh human to a PDF or an html file or a text file or a RocketHuman or a printout for a buck in ten minutes! It’s ironic, because one of the frequently cited reasons for preferring flesh to posthumans is that flesh humans confer a sense of ownership of a physical object. Before the dust settles on this posthuman thing, owning a flesh human is going to feel less like ownership than having an open digital edition of the text.

I love the phrase four-color, full-bleed, perfect-bound, laminated-cover, printed-spine flesh human. Even Bruce Sterling would be hard-pressed to invent that one without mechanical aids. Further proof that if everyone would just listen to the ideas Cory expresses so well about copyright and new media, the world would be a much more fun place.