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2019
This chapter examines the notion of posthuman identity and considera its wider personal, social, cultural and political consequences. It explores the cultural and political factors that have brought posthumanism to prominence in the academy and in wider public debate.
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This chapter examines the notion of posthuman identity and considera its wider personal, social, cultural and political consequences. It explores the cultural and political factors that have brought posthumanism to prominence in the academy and in wider public debate.
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2021
This chapter evaluates human enhancement, looking at the concepts of transhumans and posthumans. It might be useful to call enhancements things that improve the functions we already have while extensions add new functions. Somebody who is much enhanced compared to us current humans can be called a “transhuman”; they are clearly better at a lot of ...
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This chapter evaluates human enhancement, looking at the concepts of transhumans and posthumans. It might be useful to call enhancements things that improve the functions we already have while extensions add new functions. Somebody who is much enhanced compared to us current humans can be called a “transhuman”; they are clearly better at a lot of ...
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2020
The “posthuman” is an umbrella term frequently employed in a number of theoretical and critical discourses. It is difficult to find a definition of the term that is shared by all the different approaches that use it, since “posthuman” seems to denote a very diverse group of phenomena, some ongoing and others only predicted or imagined.
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The “posthuman” is an umbrella term frequently employed in a number of theoretical and critical discourses. It is difficult to find a definition of the term that is shared by all the different approaches that use it, since “posthuman” seems to denote a very diverse group of phenomena, some ongoing and others only predicted or imagined.
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Humanism, Posthumanism, Transhumanism:
2021This essay captures more contemporary philosophical perspectives on Beat literature, specifically William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, through the application of humanist, posthumanist, and transhumanist philosophies. The essay also includes a detailed list of key philosophical resources for teaching this approach.
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2017
Posthumanism is most often theorized as a technological/human hybridity, but here I consider a posthumanism that follows Sylvia Wynter’s insistence on a humanism that “exists outside the present conception of what it is to be human.” That present conception is neoliberal humanism, which constructs the human in the image of a hyper-capitalist ...
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Posthumanism is most often theorized as a technological/human hybridity, but here I consider a posthumanism that follows Sylvia Wynter’s insistence on a humanism that “exists outside the present conception of what it is to be human.” That present conception is neoliberal humanism, which constructs the human in the image of a hyper-capitalist ...
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Posthumanism, simply put, shifts the focus of research and politics away from humans; like Chakrabarty’s (2000) call to ‘provincialize Europe’, it pushes humans to the margins. The challenges posed by human destructiveness, environmental degradation, climate change, population growth, resource scarcity, urbanization, diminishing resources, our ...
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