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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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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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Moving to a Posthuman Technosphere [PDF]

, 2018
A new book by Roberto Marchesini, Tecnosfera, is reviewed. Technosfera serves as an in-depth exploration of the concept of techne and its relation to humanist and posthumanist thought for professionals.
Umbrello, Steven
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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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Affective Embodiment and the Transmission of Affect in Ex Machina

Philosophies, 2019
The focus of posthuman thought centers on a shift in the humanistic paradigm; focusing on a state of existence that lies beyond being “human”, including bioengineering, artificial intelligence, and synthetic embodiment. Inspired by continuous
Chia Wei Fahn
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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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Postumano. Il corpo tra psicoanalisi, biopolitica, realtà virtuale e arte Istituto italiano per gli Studi Filosofici – Napoli, 27 maggio 2016 [PDF]

S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2016
Posthuman. The Body between Psychoanalysis, Biopolitics, virtual Reality and Art The posthuman has become a topic of central interest for the definition of certain key-elements of Western thought.
LO SAPIO, LUCA
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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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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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On the Maximal Quantity of Processed Information in the Physical Eschatological Context

, 2001
An estimate of the maximal informational content available to advanced extraterrestrial or future (post)human civilizations is presented. It is shown that the fundamental thermodynamical considerations may lead to a quantitative estimate of the largest ...
Cirkovic, Milan M., Radujkov, Marina
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