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Modernism and Posthumanism [PDF]
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
Peter Adkins, Adkins, Peter; id_orcid
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Posthumanism: A Fickle Philosophy? [PDF]
Defining posthumanism as a single, well-oriented philosophy is a difficult if not impossible endeavour. Part of the reason for this difficulty is accounted by posthumanism’s illusive origins and its perpetually changing hermeneutics.
Steven Umbrello
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Posthumanism and Hybridization
Posthumanism; Hybridization; Ontology of Processes; Moral ExtensionismIt has been usual to criticize Posthumanism for being a purely hypothetical speculation with no connection with our technological and scientific possibilities.
Luca Valera +1 more
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Disability and the Medical Posthumanities. [PDF]
This paper makes a case for being in but not of the medical posthumanities, cognisant of our contemporary times that continue to render some human beings as valued and others as expendable. I provide a brief reading of medical posthumanities before turning to a field (critical disability studies), an event (the deployment of Do Not Attempt ...
Goodley D.
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Hayden White’s Anthropocentric Posthumanism
This article reflects on Hayden White’s essay “Posthumanism and the Liberation of Humankind” (2000) and indicates its relevance for the current critique of anthropocentrism and on-going discussions about human agency, the non-human condition and ...
Ewa Domanska
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Will Posthumanism be the End of the Homo Sapiens Era? [PDF]
The purpose of the article is to answer the question whether posthumanism is the end of the homo sapiens era. The multitude of posthumanisms can be reduced to two main views: cultural posthumanism and techno-humanism.
Piotr Mazur
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Composting Humboldt: How might Donna Haraway’s posthumanism enrich an understanding of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Bildung? [PDF]
This conceptual research aims to reconfigure Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Bildung considering Donna Haraway’s ‘compostist’ posthumanism. Three aspects of Humboldt’s Bildung are identified and analysed: individuality, unity of nature and mind, and holistic ...
Louis Waterman-Evans
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Philosophical and Cultural Aspects of Transhumanism and Posthumanism [PDF]
The article discusses the mechanisms of improving the human organism presented in past centuries’ culture and analogous phenomena present in contemporary cultural texts. On this basis, theoretical and speculative aspects of posthumanism and transhumanism
Roman Sapenko, Bogdan Trocha
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Posthuman Archaeologies, Archaeological Posthumanisms
This paper maps and builds relations between posthumanism and the field of archaeology, arguing for vital and promising connections between the two. Posthuman insights on post-anthropocentrism, non-human multiplicities, and the minoritarian in the now intersect powerfully with archaeology’s multi-temporal and long-term interests in heterogenous and ...
Craig Cipolla +2 more
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