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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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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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a hospital in Greater Manchester, England in 2016–17, we describe how a set of national health priorities were translated into work for hospital managers and clinicians during a period of significant organizational pressure.
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The Myth of Total Shakespeare: Filmic Adaptation and Posthuman Collaboration
Multicultural Shakespeare, 2021 The convergence of textuality and multimedia in the twenty-first century signals a profound shift in early modern scholarship as Shakespeare’s text is no longer separable from the diffuse presence of Shakespeare on film.
Seth Lewis
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Volumetric mediations: Atmospheres of crisis and unbelonging in humanitarian drone documentaries
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more‐than‐military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwei's Human Flow (2017) and Morgan Knibbe's Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (2014), I examine how their drone cinematography visualises the ...
Beryl Pong
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Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasures in Posthuman Times by Stacy Alaimo [PDF]
, 2018 Review of Stacy Alaimo\u27s Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasures in Posthuman ...
TeBokkel, Nathan
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Transhumanism Between Human Enhancement and Technological Innovation [PDF]
, 2016 Transhumanism introduces from its very beginning a paradigm shift about concepts like human nature, progress and human future. An overview of its ideology reveals a strong belief in the idea of human enhancement through technologically means.
Iuga, Ion
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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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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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