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Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Peter Mahon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474236812
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Peter Mahon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Peter Mahon goes beyond recent theoretical approaches to 'the posthuman' to argue for a concrete posthumanism, which arises as humans, animals and technology become entangled, in science, society and culture. Concrete posthumanism is rooted in cutting-edge advances in techno-science, and this book offers readers an exciting, fresh and innovative exploration of this undulating, and often unstable, terrain. With wide-ranging coverage, of cybernetics, information theory, medicine, genetics, machine learning, politics, science fiction, philosophy and futurology, Mahon examines how posthumanism played-and continues to play-a crucial role in shaping how we understand our world. This analysis of posthumanism centers on human interactions with tools and technology, the centrality of science, as well as an understanding of techno-science as a pharmakon-an ancient Greek word for a substance that is both poison and cure. Mahon argues that posthumanism must be approached with an interdisciplinary attitude: a concrete posthumanism is only graspable through knowledge derived from science and the humanities. He concludes by sketching a 'post-humanities' to help us meet the challenges of posthumanism, challenges to which we all must rise. Posthumanism: A Guide for the Perplexed provides a concise, detailed and coherent exploration of posthumanism, introducing key approaches, concepts and themes. It is ideal for readers of all stripes who are interested in a concrete posthumanism and require more than just a simple introduction.

GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED

Author : E. F. Schumacher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060906111
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED written by E. F. Schumacher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1978-05-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the world wide best-seller, Small Is Beautiful, now tackles the subject of Man, the World, and the Meaning of Living. Schumacher writes about man's relation to the world. man has obligations -- to other men, to the earth, to progress and technology, but most importantly himself. If man can fulfill these obligations, then and only then can he enjoy a real relationship with the world, then and only then can he know the meaning of living. Schumacher says we need maps: a "map of knowledge" and a "map of living." The concern of the mapmaker--in this instance, Schumacher--is to find for everything it's proper place. Things out of place tend to get lost; they become invisible and there proper places end to be filled by other things that ought not be there at all and therefore serve to mislead. A Guide for the Perplexed teaches us to be our own map makers. This constantly surprising, always stimulating book will be welcomed by a large audience, including the many new fans who believe strongly in what Schumacher has to say.

Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Peter Mahon
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826487912
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Peter Mahon and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the most commonly studied texts, it guides the reader through Joyce's stylistic and thematic complexity and through differing theoretical interpretations of his work.

Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Jonathan Boulter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441125981
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Jonathan Boulter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is one of the most important twentieth century writers. Seen as both a modernist and postmodernist, his work has influenced generations of playwrights, novelists and poets. Despite his notorious difficulty, Beckett famously refused to offer his readers any help in interpreting his work. Beckett's texts examine key philosophical-humanist questions but his writing is challenging, perplexing and often intimidating for readers. This guide offers students reading Beckett a clear starting point from which to confront some of the most difficult plays and novels produced in the twentieth century, texts which often appear to work on the very edge of meaninglessness. Beginning with a general introduction to Beckett, his work and its contexts, the guide looks at each of the major genres in turn, analyzing key works chronologically. It explains why Beckett's texts can seem so impenetrable and confusing, and focuses on key questions and issues. Giving an accessible account of both the form and content of Beckett's work, this guide will enable students to begin to come to grips with this fascinating but daunting writer.

Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism

Author : Stefan Herbrechter
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031049586
Total Pages : 1233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism written by Stefan Herbrechter and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 1233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and disability studies. The book also traces the historical representations and understanding of posthumanism across time. Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as autobiography, games, art, film, museums, and topics such as climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to name a few. This handbook considers posthumanism’s impact across disciplines and areas of study.

Malleable, Digital, and Posthuman

Author : Ignas Kalpokas
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1801176221
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Malleable, Digital, and Posthuman written by Ignas Kalpokas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a posthumanist research methodology for future research in the areas of the economy, the human self, politics, and research ethics, providing a novel explanatory and methodological framework for studying today's world.

Posthuman Studies Reader

Author : Evi D. Sampanikou
Publisher : Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
ISBN 13 : 3796543189
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (965 download)

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Book Synopsis Posthuman Studies Reader by : Evi D. Sampanikou

Download or read book Posthuman Studies Reader written by Evi D. Sampanikou and published by Schwabe Verlag (Basel). This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new reader presents an up-to-date collection of seminal texts dedicated to all branches of debates on Posthuman Studies: Transhumanism, Critical Posthumanism and Metahumanism. It includes classical as well as cutting-edge contributions to these debates. The Posthuman Studies Reader is an indispensable resource for studying as well as teaching key concepts, central claims and main arguments of contemporary debates in the field of Posthuman Studies. The reader includes texts by: Neil Badmington, Karen Barad, Nick Bostrom, Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Jaime del Val, FM-2030, Francis Fukuyama, Elaine Graham, Donna Haraway, Ihab Habib Hassan, N. Katherine Hayles, James Hughes, Julian Huxley, Brian Massumi, Max More, David Pearce, Anders Sandberg, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Stelarc, Natasha Vita-More and Cary Wolfe. "This Reader is a perfect guide to get into bleeding-edge philosophy."Nicolás Rojas Cortés, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Chile "The Reader can be used not only as a textbook in higher education, but also by all researchers and students in these fields as reference. [...] I highly recommend it to everyone who is interested in these movements and those works from which excerpts are included in it."Yunus Tuncel, The New School, New York "Since Sorgner, Sampanikou, Stasienko and their colleagues, almost singlehandedly, are crafting and advancing this discipline through its forming stages, when they publish a book with handpicked canonic texts, it should be treated as a landmark."Carmel Vaisman, The Cohn Institute and The Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities, Tel Aviv University "What makes the Posthuman Studies Reader interesting and exciting is the facility to have in one volume the basic ideas and essentials of transhumanism, critical posthumanism and metahumanism. The reader provides in a condensed version an introduction to posthuman studies for both academic and nonacademic audiences."Leo Igwe, Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town "The Posthuman Studies Reader serves as a comprehensive guide and/or manual of an evolving and expanding Post/Trans/Meta Humanism discourse. [...] because of the clarity of organization by the editors and the highest scholarship of the writers, the collection was able to drive the interest of readers a notch or two higher."Joseph Reylan B. Viray, Polytechnic University of the Philippines

Our Posthuman Past

Author : David Edward Rose
Publisher : Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
ISBN 13 : 379654231X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Our Posthuman Past written by David Edward Rose and published by Schwabe Verlag (Basel). This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological advances directly affect the human being's material existence and its self-understanding. The Enlightenment's intentional agent is, due to specific technologies, undergoing a fundamental transformation. Yet, if the ideological basis of this understanding, the justness of social luck, is not rejected, then a new understanding of the "subject" which would avoid unfreedom in the territorialization of the digital world is made impossible. This book offers a novel Hegelian reading of the posthuman discipline in order to propose a new subjectivity.

Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction

Author : Carmen Laguarta-Bueno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000655288
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction written by Carmen Laguarta-Bueno and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work studies three twenty-first century novels by Richard Powers, Dave Eggers and Don DeLillo as representative of a new trend of US fiction concerned with the topic of the technological augmentation of the human condition. The different chapters provide, from the double perspective of the optimistic transhumanist philosophy and the more balanced approach of critical posthumanism, an overview of the narrative strategies used by the writers to explore the possibilities that biotechnology, digital technologies and cryonics open up to transcend our human limitations, while also warning their readers of their most nefarious consequences. Ultimately, the book puts forward the claim that even if the writers approach the subject from a variety of perspectives and using different narrative styles and techniques, they all share a critical posthumanist fear that an unrestrained and unquestioned use of technology for enhancement purposes may bring about disembodiment and dehumanization.

Disability and the Posthuman

Author : Stuart Fletcher Murray
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789627478
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Disability and the Posthuman written by Stuart Fletcher Murray and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability and the Posthuman is the first study to analyse cultural representations and deployments of disability as they interact with posthumanist theories of technology and embodiment. Working across a wide range of texts, many new to critical enquiry, in contemporary writing, film and cultural practice from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Japan, it covers a diverse range of topics, including: contemporary cultural theory and aesthetics; design, engineering and gender; the visualisation of prosthetic technologies in the representation of war and conflict; and depictions of work, time and sleep. While noting the potential limitations of posthumanist assessments of the technologized body, the study argues that there are exciting, productive possibilities and subversive potentials in the dialogue between disability and posthumanism as they generate dissident crossings of cultural spaces. Such intersections cover both fictional/imagined and material/grounded examples of disability and look to a future in which the development of technology and complex embodiment of disability presence align to produce sustainable yet radical creative and critical voices.

Beginning theory

Author : Peter Barry
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526121808
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Beginning theory written by Peter Barry and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics and the theories they represent, Beginning theory allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles and concepts have been grasped. The book has been updated for this edition and includes a new introduction, expanded chapters, and an overview of the subject ('Theory after "Theory"') which maps the arrival of new 'isms' since the second edition appeared in 2002 and the third edition in 2009.

After the Human

Author : Sherryl Vint
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108836666
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book After the Human written by Sherryl Vint and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.

Teaching Electronic Music

Author : Blake Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000417271
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Electronic Music written by Blake Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Electronic Music: Cultural, Creative, and Analytical Perspectives offers innovative and practical techniques for teaching electronic music in a wide range of classroom settings. Across a dozen essays, an array of contributors—including practitioners in musicology, art history, ethnomusicology, music theory, performance, and composition—reflect on the challenges of teaching electronic music, highlighting pedagogical strategies while addressing questions such as: What can instructors do to expand and diversify musical knowledge? Can the study of electronic music foster critical reflection on technology? What are the implications of a digital culture that allows so many to be producers of music? How can instructors engage students in creative experimentation with sound? Electronic music presents unique possibilities and challenges to instructors of music history courses, calling for careful attention to creative curricula, historiographies, repertoires, and practices. Teaching Electronic Music features practical models of instruction as well as paths for further inquiry, identifying untapped methodological directions with broad interest and wide applicability.

Discourses on Disability

Author : Anju Sosan George
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527501450
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Discourses on Disability written by Anju Sosan George and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourses on Disability bridges academic and personal voices from India to address the diverse and fluid conversations on disability. It seeks to critically engage with the concept of being dis/abled, attempting to deconstruct ableism while advocating for inclusive politics. Narratives from people with bipolar disorder, autism, and locomotor disabilities serve to examine how it feels to exist in a world conditioned by deep-seated cultural taboos about disability. The chapters in this book show how India still has a systemic silence about people with disabilities.

Algorithmic Governance

Author : Ignas Kalpokas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030319229
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Algorithmic Governance written by Ignas Kalpokas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the changes to the regulation of everyday life that have taken place as a result of datafication, the ever-growing analytical, predictive, and structuring role of algorithms, and the prominence of the platform economy. This new form of regulation – algorithmic governance – ranges from nudging individuals towards predefined outcomes to outright structuration of behaviour through digital architecture. The author reveals the strength and pervasiveness of algorithmic politics through a comparison with the main traditional form of regulation: law. These changes are subsequently demonstrated to reflect a broader shift away from anthropocentric accounts of the world. In doing so, the book adopts a posthumanist framework which focuses on deep embeddedness and interactions between humans, the natural environment, technology, and code.

The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I

Author : Nikolina Bobic
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000774112
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume I written by Nikolina Bobic and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For architecture and urban space to have relevance in the 21st Century, we cannot merely reignite the approaches of thought and design that were operative in the last century. This is despite, or because of, the nexus between politics and space often being theorized as a representation or by-product of politics. As a symbol or an effect, the spatial dimension is depoliticized. Consequently, architecture and the urban are halted from fostering any systematic change as they are secondary to the event and therefore incapable of performing any political role. This handbook explores how architecture and urban space can unsettle the unquestioned construct of the spatial politics of governing. Considering both ongoing and unprecedented global problems – from violence and urban warfare, the refugee crisis, borderization, detention camps, terrorist attacks to capitalist urbanization, inequity, social unrest and climate change – this handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary research focused on the complex nexus of politics, architecture and urban space. Volume I starts by pointing out the need to explore the politics of spatialization to make sense of the operational nature of spatial oppression in contemporary times. The operative and active political reading of space is disseminated through five thematics: Violence and War Machines; Security and Borders; Race, Identity and Ideology; Spectacle and the Screen; and Mapping Landscapes and Big Data. This first volume of the handbook frames cutting-edge contemporary debates and presents studies of actual theories and projects that address spatial politics. This Handbook will be of interest to anyone seeking to meaningfully disrupt the reduction of space to an oppressive or neutral backdrop of political realities.

"A Curious Machine"

Author : Arseny Ermakov
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 166676261X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book "A Curious Machine" written by Arseny Ermakov and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his sermon “What Is Man?,” John Wesley spoke of the human being as a “curious machine,” reflecting the eighteenth-century view of the person as a set of complex mechanisms animated by the soul. The rapid rate of technological development in recent decades is opening toward a future in which the centrality and uniqueness of human beings is undergoing a shift. Developments in robotics, artificial intelligence, surveillance, autonomous weapons, human enhancement, and genetic modification raise an array of questions for the Christian tradition. The awareness of the negative impact of human activity on the natural environment is challenging the traditional view of humanity as having a uniquely privileged role at the heart of creation. This collection of essays addresses Wesleyan and broadly Christian voices that explore the theological, philosophical, biblical, ethical, and practical implications of emerging technologies, their impact upon different aspects of human life, and the possibilities that are opening up toward a posthuman future.