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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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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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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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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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Recent Approaches in the Posthuman Turn: Braidotti, Herbrechter, and Nayar
Relations, 2016 Braidotti, Rosi. 2013. The Posthuman. Cambridge: Polity Press. 180 pp. $ 19.95. ISBN 978-0745641584. Herbrechter, Stefan. 2013. Posthumanism: A Critical Analysis. London: Bloomsbury. 248 pp. $ 29.95. ISBN 978-1780936062. Nayar, Pramod K.
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Political Animals: To Live & Die in More‐Than‐Human Worlds
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What does it mean to live—and therefore die—in a more‐than‐human world? This review essay explores that question through reflections on teaching Political Animals: Species, Class, Race, and Gender, an undergraduate course that introduces students to scholarship on human‐nonhuman relations.
Luísa Reis‐Castro
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Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen MediaThe polysemous nature of the term “posthuman” has inspired contentious debates in critical theory, leading both to the term’s miscomprehension and misapplication.
Karim Townsend
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Penser le posthumain avec les séries de SF ?
TV Series, 2023 The posthuman has been central in TV shows since the first space opera (Star Trek) which has left its mark on its legacy of SF TV series. From 1966 to the present time, from the information paradigm proposed by cybernetics then, to screen culture and the
Hélène Machinal
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