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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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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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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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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Experiencing crises, such as the pandemic, has affected infrastructures of sociality and intensified social and spatial inequities while revealing the fragility of systems we depend upon. In this Interventions collection, we collaboratively search for paths toward visionary lifeworlds, taking the entangled commons as a commitment to ...
Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe
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Philosophical Foundations of Metahumanism: A Critique of Projections of a Posthuman Future
Вестник Северного (Арктического) федерального университета: Серия «Гуманитарные и социальные науки»Despite its recent emergence, metahumanism is actively promoting ideas about a posthuman future alongside transhumanism and posthumanism. The purpose of this study was to conduct a critical analysis of the key conceptual ideas of metahumanism and ...
Ellen Martin
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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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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