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Critical political ecology and the seductions of posthumanism
Journal of Political Ecology, 2014 "Posthumanist" theories have become increasingly popular among scholars in political ecology and other fields in the human sciences. The hope is that they will improve our grasp of relations between humans and various nonhumans and, in the process, offer
Fayaz Chagani
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Pedagogies of Attending and Mourning
Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2022 In a 1992 chapter, “Cries and Whispers,” William Pinar called for conversations around death to become normative in education, but that call has largely been ignored in curriculum theory.
Adrian M. Downey
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Becoming posthuman in 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind': exploring cinematic mediations of memory and technology [PDF]
Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2020 Utilising a critical posthumanist approach, this paper takes a renewed interest in the 2004 science fiction/romantic drama film 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'.
Sarah Yeung
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The Ship Who Sang: Feminism, the Posthuman, and Similarity
Open Library of Humanities, 2020 The fact that there is an affinity between the agendas of feminist theory and critical posthumanism is well-known, but warrants further exploration when used for the analysis of specific popular cultural representations.
Nicole Falkenhayner
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Robots, Extinction, and Salvation: On Altruism in Human–Posthuman Interactions
Religions, 2021 Posthumanism and transhumanism are philosophies that envision possible relations between humans and posthumans. Critical versions of posthumanism and transhumanism examine the idea of potential threats involved in human–posthuman interactions (i.e ...
Juraj Odorčák, Pavlína Bakošová
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Posthumanism: a Danger, Opportunity and Challenge
Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana, 2017 A tendency towards posthumanism is on the increase today. The author of the article aims to analyse the issue in order to provide a critical interpretation, offering a short description of the phenomenon, a key concept (freedom) useful in addressing the ...
Giuseppe Mari
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Accountable Metaphors: The Transhuman Poetics of Failure in Tao Lin’s Taipei
Atlantis, 2021 Tao Lin’s novel Taipei (2013) can be described as a picture of transhuman existence in the current digital world. However, its poetics of failure does not seem to adjust to the typically utopian visions that have often been related to transhumanism ...
Miriam Fernández-Santiago
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Existentialism and My ‘Postwolf’ Dachshund: Authenticity in the Age of Genetic Engineering
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human genetic engineering has the potential to profoundly alter the traits of future generations, raising critical ethical questions about authenticity and identity. Essentialist perspectives reject genetic engineering, claiming it inherently compromises authenticity by deviating from a species‐typical genome.
Donrich Thaldar
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British Journal of Educational Technology, EarlyView.We explore a topological model that situates teachers' agency as a constituent element within the convergent and divergent dynamics at the intersection of human‐mediated and algorithmically mediated pedagogies. Ubiquitous AI in education is designed to simulate, emulate and automate human processes and behaviours through datafication.
Keith Turvey, Norbert Pachler
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South Atlantic Quarterly, 2017 What are the parameters that define posthuman knowing subjects and their ethical accountability? This essay outlines a framework by which to understand the emerging field of the critical posthumanities. It proposes as the field's conceptual foundation a neo-Spinozist monistic ontology that assumes radical immanence, as well as a mind-body and nature ...
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