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Many of our most fundamental ideas about humanity are bound up with ideas about (other) animals (Calarco 2015; Wolfe 2010). Religions usually have central beliefs that revolve around the differences and/or similarities between humans ...
Kate Soper, Humanism and Anti-Humanism (London, 1986) and Tony Davies, Humanism (London and New York, 1997). 7. Quoted in Davies, Humanism, p. 1. 8. Soper, Humanism and Anti-Humanism, p. 9. 9. Ibid., pp.11–12. 10.
In order to demonstrate this argument about the body as interface producing its distributed subjectivity, and the necessity of the corporeal to the information flow, I return to my reading of William Gibson's 2003 novel Pattern ...
Instead, the spectre of the 'posthuman' is now being widely invoked as the 'inevitable' next evolutionary stage that humans are facing. Who comes after the human? This is the question that posthumanists are taking as their starting point.
This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants.
5 David McFarland, Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). 6 Andy Clark, Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence (Oxford: Oxford University ...
This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants.
What links posthumanism to science fiction? Posthumanism addresses these and other questions in an attempt to come to terms with one of the most pressing issues facing contemporary society.
... unhuman constitution' (Cottom 2006: xi).This is precisely where Cottom sees the necessity for 'misanthropy' as a precondition of art in contemporary 'in or unhuman' culture: 'Studying the agency of the unhuman in the human requires that ...
Provides an analysis of the main preconceptions and desires underlying past and current representations of posthumanist futures.
This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants.