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Meatspace is Cyberspace: The Pynchonian Posthuman in Bleeding Edge
Orbit, 2016 This article examines Thomas Pynchon’s indirect critique of utopian posthumanism in Bleeding Edge by analyzing the deleterious effects that an emerging Internet culture has on the novel’s characters. By seeping into every aspect of their lives, embedding
Jason Siegel
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Posthumanistična znanost. Husserl, Sellars, moderno naravoslovje in koncept človeka [PDF]
Phainomena, 2020 Posthuman Science. Husserl, Sellars, modern natural science, and the concept of man - The paper discusses the relation between human experience and modern natural science.
Timotej Prosen
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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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FilozofiaThis review essay critically examines Emily Jones’ Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives, which develops “posthuman feminism” to diagnose the exclusionary humanism and anthropocentrism of international law.
Shisong Jiang
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Kabbalah, "Dybbuks", and the Religious Posthuman in the Shakespearean Worlds of "Twin Peaks"
Multicultural Shakespeare, 2021 In the series Twin Peaks, Mark Frost, David Lynch and others create a mythological framework structured by and filtered through Shakespeare in a postsecular exploration of the posthuman. Twin Peaks exemplifies a cultural postsecular turn in its treatment
Lisa S. Starks
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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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P. P. S. OBVERSION: IS A REAL HUMAN BEING WRITTEN?
Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Філософія, філософські перипетії, 2020 This article considers the state of human beings in a post-postmodern conditions and focuses on obversion as one version of posthuman reality in polyversion, which is lusciousness. Obversion is regarded as a logical and at the same time dynamic figure of
Nataliia V. Zahurska
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Children &Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the ways in which ‘forest school’, an educational approach where children engage in creative and play based activities in a ‘natural’ environment, can contribute towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15) by promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems and by helping address biodiversity loss. Drawing on data
Hannah Hogarth
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Loving Monsters—The Curious Case of Patricia Piccinini’s Posthuman Offspring
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2019 Patricia Piccinini’s work has been described as disquieting, compelling and grotesque. Other adjectives often used include disturbing, visceral, monstrous, chimerical but also cute and beautiful.
Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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