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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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Teeming Stomachs and Infinite Spirals: Posthuman Anxiety in Patrick Ness’s The Rest of Us Just Live Here and John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down

International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2020
The posthuman – as ontology, theory, philosophy, ethical framework – has been somewhat valorised in the cultural and critical imagination of late: heralded as the aspirational antithesis of a longstanding, yet long-critiqued humanist infrastructure based
Amy Waite
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Paradoks postljudskog tela u polju zazora: od potvrde falogocentričnog Simboličkog do obećanja trangresivnog prestupa i nazad / Paradox of Posthuman Body in the Field of Abject: from Confirmation of Phalogocentric Symbolic to Promise of Transgressive Trespass and Back

AM: Art + Media, 2012
Posthuman body, being designed as organic-machine union or non-human/posthuman organic entity, functions as an abject, treatening and eroding humanly constructed subject as its unnameable remainder of its semiotic past, but at the same time guaranteeing ...
Dragana Stojanović
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Posthuman/ist Literature? Don DeLillo’s Point Omega and Zero K

Open Library of Humanities, 2020
Posthumanist literature—question mark. The question mark in the title gestures towards the conundrum that something like posthumanist literature might well be a contradiction in terms.
Stefan Herbrechter
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Rethinking ‘Sex Robots’: Gender, Desire, and Embodiment in Posthuman Sextech

Journal of Digital Social Research, 2022
This paper interrogates the posthuman potential of sextech aimed at heterosexual men, positing that advertising and design of products with digital femininities emphasise the possibility for emotional interaction.
Chloé Locatelli
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Walking into the cyborg gym. Two conceptions of the cyborg athlete

Revista Teknokultura, 2018
In this paper, I will draw on the different notions of the cyborg to explore the normative implications of technology use in sport. To do so, I will first analyze the colloquial notion of the cyborg (Section 1).
Francisco Javier Lopez Frías
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Iain M. Banks – Human, Posthuman and Beyond Human

ELOPE, 2018
Iain M. Banks has been at the forefront of the space opera science fiction scene since the publication of the first Culture novel, Consider Phlebas, in 1987. Upon Banks’ death in 2013, the culture series became a complete body of work.
Antonia Leach
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Posthuman Knowledge

Brock Education: a Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2021
A review of Rosi Braidotti's Posthuman Knowledge (2019)
Julie Gemuend
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Modernism and Posthumanism

, 2022
This chapter makes the case for the importance of the early twentieth century in the emergence of posthumanism. Beginning by tracing two of the earliest examples of the word ‘posthuman’, the chapter explores the social movements, philosophical departures and technological developments that encouraged writers to reassess the category of the human during
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Afterness and spectrality: excavating postself and posthuman in Samuel Beckett and Don DeLillo

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Beckett constructs the spectral posthuman presence of bare essentials (the metaphysics of the human) through the gradual scission of language. Beckett’s undead/undying characters are stuck between the posthuman and the postcorporeal.
Asijit Datta
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