Author: Sümeyra Buran
Publisher: Transnational Press London
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021): Dossier: Philosophical Posthumanism Session at the 42nd Annual KJSNA Meeting Editorial Sümeyra Buran, Çağdaş Dedeoğlu 137-138 Posthuman Media Studies J.J. Sylvia IV 139-151 Sympoietic Art Practice in Co-expressive Re-worlding with Hegel’s “Vegetal Subject” Lin Charlston, David Charlston 153-166 Collaging the Posthuman into the Postnatural Dennis Summers 167-178 Surreal Femininity: Nature and “Woman” in the Art of Marguerite Humeau Margaryta Golovchenko 179-193 Commentaries & Interviews The Posthumanist Dimension of the Novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk A Commentary Malgorzata Kowalcze 225-228 Transhumanism, Nietzsche and Politics: A Commentary on Their Relationship Anna Markopoulou 229-234 Artistic Works Refocusing the Anthropocenic Gaze: A Photo Essay Jasmine Ulmer 235-243 Forms of Intelligence: Co-species Care in More-than-human Worlds Kaajal MODI 245-251 Book Reviews Book Review of Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (2020) Didem Yilmaz 253-255 Dossier: Philosophical Posthumanism Session at the 42nd Annual KJSNA Meeting The Ethics of Human Enhancement and Ferrando’s Philosophical Posthumanism Kevin LaGrandeur 195-198 Capitalism in Philosophical Posthumanism Jessica Ludescher Imanaka 199-205 The Hidden Religious Dimension of Posthumanism A Commentary on Francesca Ferrando's Philosophical Posthumanism Markus Wirtz 207-212 Traditions of Yoga in Existential Posthuman Praxis Debashish Banerji 213-217 Beyond Posthuman Theory: Tackling Realities of Everyday Life Francesca Ferrando
Author: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271088419
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 89
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Transhumanism is widely misunderstood, in part because the media have exaggerated current technologies and branded the movement as dangerous, leading many to believe that hybrid humans may soon walk among us and that immortality, achieved by means of mind-uploading, is imminent. In this essential and clarifying volume, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner debunks widespread myths about transhumanism and tackles the most pressing ethical issues in the debate over technologically assisted human enhancement. On Transhumanism is a vital primer on the subject, written by a world-renowned expert. In this book, Sorgner presents an overview of the movement’s history, capably summarizing the twelve pillars of transhumanist discourse and explaining the great diversity of transhumanist responses to each individual topic. He highlights the urgent ethical challenges related to the latest technological developments, inventions, and innovations and compares the unique cultural standing of transhumanism to other cultural movements, placing it within the broader context of the Enlightenment, modernity, postmodernity, and the philosophical writings of Nietzsche. Engagingly written and translated and featuring an introduction for North American readers, this comprehensive overview of the cultural and philosophical movement of transhumanism will be required reading for students of posthumanist philosophy and for general audiences interested in learning about the transhumanist movement.
Author: Sumeyra Buran Utku
Publisher: Transnational Press London
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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Posthumanisms beyond Disciplines Sumeyra Buran Utku, Cagdas Dedeoglu, Pelin Kümbet, Yunus Tuncel 1-4 Posthuman Archaeologies, Archaeological Posthumanisms Craig Cipolla, Rachel J. Crellin, Oliver J.T. Harris 5-21 Cyborg or Goddess? Religion and Posthumanism From Secular to Postsecular Elaine Graham 23-31 The Vital Life of Kitchens in Higher Education Institutional Workspaces Material Matterings, Affective Choreographies and Micropolitical Practices Carol A Taylor 33-52 The Body is Infinite/ Body Intelligence Ontohacking Sex-Species and the BI r/evolution in the Algoricene Jaime del Val 53-72 Chinese Kung-fu Films and the Posthuman Daoism Kin Yuen Wong 73-86 Commentaries & Interviews Are We Ready for Direct Brain Links to Machines and Each Other? A Real-World Application of Posthuman Bioethics Kevin LaGrandeur 87-91 From the Ashes Ecological Ethics and the Australian Bushfires Matt McDonald 93-96 To the Posthuman Born(e): The Post-natural World of Jeff VanderMeer Pramod K. Nayar 97-105 Dialogue on Posthuman Life, Death and COVID-19 Francesca Ferrando, Asijit Datta 107-120 Book Reviews Posthumanism and higher education: Reimagining pedagogy, practice and research Karen E Barr 121-124 On Transhumanism: The most dangerous idea in the world?! Aleksandar Talovic 125-128 Artistic Works Pink Chicken Project ISSN: 2634-3576 (Print) ISSN: 2634-3584 (Online) Journal of Posthumanism is an international multilingual peer-reviewed scholarly journal promoting innovative work to transverse the fields ranging from social sciences, humanities, and arts to medicine and STEM. In line with the efforts of creating a broad network beyond disciplinary boundaries, the journal seeks to explore what it means to be human in this technologically-saturated, ecologically damaged world, and transcend the traditional conception of the human while encouraging philosophical thinking beyond humanism.
Author: Edward King
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1911576453
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Latin America is experiencing a boom in graphic novels that are highly innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium. Inventive artwork and sophisticated scripts have combined to satisfy the demand of a growing readership, both at home and abroad. Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America, which is the first book-length study of the topic, argues that the graphic novel is emerging in Latin America as a uniquely powerful force to explore the nature of twenty-first century subjectivity. The authors place particular emphasis on the ways in which humans are bound to their non-human environment, and these ideas are productively drawn out in relation to posthuman thought and experience. The book draws together a range of recent graphic novels from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, many of which experiment with questions of transmediality, the representation of urban space, modes of perception and cognition, and a new form of ethics for a posthuman world. Praise for Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America '...well-referenced and… well considered - the analyses it brings are overall well-executed and insightful...' Image and Narrative, Jan 2018, vol 18, no 4
Author: Cary Wolfe
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452942714
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 501
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What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities—posthumanities—respond to the redefinition of humanity’s place in the world by both the technological and the biological or “green” continuum in which the “human” is but one life form among many? Exploring how both critical thought along with cultural practice have reacted to this radical repositioning, Cary Wolfe—one of the founding figures in the field of animal studies and posthumanist theory—ranges across bioethics, cognitive science, animal ethics, gender, and disability to develop a theoretical and philosophical approach responsive to our changing understanding of ourselves and our world. Then, in performing posthumanist readings of such diverse works as Temple Grandin’s writings, Wallace Stevens’s poetry, Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark, the architecture of Diller+Scofidio, and David Byrne and Brian Eno’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, he shows how this philosophical sensibility can transform art and culture. For Wolfe, a vibrant, rigorous posthumanism is vital for addressing questions of ethics and justice, language and trans-species communication, social systems and their inclusions and exclusions, and the intellectual aspirations of interdisciplinarity. In What Is Posthumanism? he carefully distinguishes posthumanism from transhumanism (the biotechnological enhancement of human beings) and narrow definitions of the posthuman as the hoped-for transcendence of materiality. In doing so, Wolfe reveals that it is humanism, not the human in all its embodied and prosthetic complexity, that is left behind in posthumanist thought.
Author: Simon Bacon
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476680531
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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Themes of faith and religion have been threaded through popular representations of the zombie so often that they now seem inextricably linked. Whether as mindless servants to a Vodou Bokor or as evidence of the impending apocalypse, the ravenous undead have long captured something of society's relationships with spirituality, religion and belief. By the start of the 21st century, religious beliefs are as varied as the many manifestations of the zombie itself, and both themes intersect with various ideological, environmental and even post-human concerns.This book surveys the various modern religious associations in zombie media. Some characters believe that the undead are part of God's plan, others theorize that the environment might be saving itself or that zombies might be predicting life and hybridity beyond human existence. Timely and important, this work is a meditation on how faith might not just be a forerunner to the apocalypse, but the catalyst to new kinds of life beyond it.
Author: Evi D. Sampanikou
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443891673
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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This volume deals with the challenges posthumanism meets as a successor to postmodernism in the field of artistic, literary and aesthetic expression. It also explores the ways social sciences and humanities are affected by posthumanism, and it asks how posthumanism can be an expansion of humanism in the contemporary world, rather than a transcendence of humanism. The chapters’ authors come from different countries, cultural backgrounds and study areas to present a varied perspective on posthumanism.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004692053
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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It is tempting to affirm that on and about November 2022 (post)human character changed. The revolution in A.I. simulations certainly calls for an updated of the ancient realization that humans are imitative animals, or homo mimeticus. But the mimetic turn in posthuman studies is not limited to A.I.: from simulation to identification, affective contagion to viral mimesis, robotics to hypermimesis, the essays collected in this volume articulate the multiple facets of homo mimeticus 2.0. Challenging rationalist accounts of autonomous originality internal to the history of Homo sapiens, this volume argues from different—artistic, philosophical, technological—perspectives that the all too human tendency to imitate is, paradoxically, central to our ongoing process of becoming posthuman.
Author: Jeremy Tambling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350184179
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 561
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Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this handbook looks at how each defines the other as well as addressing the key thinkers in psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Klein, Lacan, and the schools of thought each of these has generated). It examines the debts that these psychoanalytic traditions have to literature, and offers plentiful case-studies of literature's influence from psychoanalysis. Engaging with critical issues such as madness, memory, and colonialism, with reference to texts from authors as diverse as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Virginia Woolf, this collection is admirably broad in its scope and wide-ranging in its geographical coverage. It thinks about the impact of psychoanalysis in a wide variety of literatures as well as in film, and critical and cultural theory.
Author: Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350090484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 473
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As our ideas of the human have come under increasing challenges – from technological change, from medical advances, from the existential threat of climate crisis, from an ideological decentering of the human, amongst many other things – the 'posthuman' has become an increasingly central topic in the Humanities. Bringing together leading scholars from across the world and a wide range of disciplines, this is the most comprehensive available survey of cutting edge contemporary scholarship on posthumanism in literature, culture and theory. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism explores: - Central critical concepts and approaches, including transhumanism, new materialism and the Anthropocene - Ethical perspectives on ecology, race, gender and disability - Technology, from data and artificial intelligence to medicine and genetics - A wide range of genres and forms, from literary and science fiction, through film, television and music, to comics, video games and social media.
