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Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments

Author : Kieran O'Halloran
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317223802
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments written by Kieran O'Halloran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments: Corpora and Digitally-driven Critical Analysis presents a new and practical approach in Critical Discourse Studies. Providing a data-driven and ethically-based method for the examination of arguments in the public sphere, this ground-breaking book: Highlights how the reader can evaluate arguments from points of view other than their own; Demonstrates how digital tools can be used to generate ‘ethical subjectivities’ from large numbers of dissenting voices on the world-wide-web; Draws on ideas from posthumanist philosophy as well as from Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari for theorising these subjectivities; Showcases a critical deconstructive approach, using different corpus linguistic programs such as AntConc, WMatrix and Sketchengine. Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments is essential reading for lecturers and researchers with an interest in critical discourse studies, critical thinking, corpus linguistics and digital humanities.

Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies

Author : Zekiye Antakyalioglu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 166691388X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies written by Zekiye Antakyalioglu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on the shifting paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Prompted by the changes and problems on the global scale, the last two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in theories which are more embedded in the social realities and human condition. This volume shows that theory can reinvent theory and re-define criticism according to the demands of the new millennium. In this context, it examines new ways of considering the relation of post-theory to the concepts such as ethics, aesthetics, truth, value, authenticity, human, and reality to understand the mindset of the new century. This volume presents the various suggestions and concerns of post-theoretical studies that reflect the sensibilities of the contemporary social and cultural life. The book is a source of reference to develop an understanding of this change of attitude in post-theoretical studies towards a more directly and sincerely responsive approach to the current problems worldwide, their representations in literature and language, reflections in theory, roots in socio-political domains, and effects on the material reality.

Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse

Author : Melani Schröter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319645803
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse written by Melani Schröter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a significant gap in the field by addressing the topic of absence in discourse. It presents a range of proposals as to how we can identify and analyse what is absent, and promotes the empirical study of absence and silence in discourse. The authors argue that these phenomena should hold a more central position in the field of discourse, and discuss these two topics at length in this innovative edited collection. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis.

Posthuman Life

Author : David Roden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131759231X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Posthuman Life written by David Roden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We imagine posthumans as humans made superhumanly intelligent or resilient by future advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science. Many argue that these enhanced people might live better lives; others fear that tinkering with our nature will undermine our sense of our own humanity. Whoever is right, it is assumed that our technological successor will be an upgraded or degraded version of us: Human 2.0. Posthuman Life argues that the enhancement debate projects a human face onto an empty screen. We do not know what will happen and, not being posthuman, cannot anticipate how posthumans will assess the world. If a posthuman future will not necessarily be informed by our kind of subjectivity or morality the limits of our current knowledge must inform any ethical or political assessment of that future. Posthuman Life develops a critical metaphysics of posthuman succession and argues that only a truly speculative posthumanism can support an ethics that meets the challenge of the transformative potential of technology.

European Posthumanism

Author : Stefan Herbrechter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317198271
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book European Posthumanism written by Stefan Herbrechter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In literary studies and beyond, ‘theory’ and its aftermaths have arguably been over-influenced by US- and UK-based institutions, publishers, journals, and academics. Yet the influence of theory in its Anglo-American forms has remained reliant on Continental European ideas. Similar patterns can be discerned within the latest theoretical paradigm – posthumanism. European ideas influence posthumanism’s challenge to established understandings of humanism, anthropomorphism, and anthropocentrism, which is characterised by the increased urgency and proliferation of questions such as ‘What does it mean to be human?’ and ‘What is the relationship between humans and their nonhuman others (machines, animals, plants, the inorganic, gods, systems, and various figures of liminality, from ghosts to angels, from cyborgs to zombies)?’ European Posthumanism examines the histories and geographies of posthumanism and looks at the genealogies which have been at work in the rise of posthumanist thought and culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

Philosophical Posthumanism

Author : Francesca Ferrando
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350059498
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Posthumanism written by Francesca Ferrando and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of 'the human' is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term 'posthuman' provides an alternative. The philosophical landscape which has developed as a response to the crisis of the human, includes several movements, such as: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism and Object Oriented Ontology. This book explains the similarities and differences between these currents and offers a detailed examination of a number of topics that fall under the “posthuman” umbrella, including the anthropocene, artificial intelligence and the deconstruction of the human. Francesca Ferrando affords particular focus to Philosophical Posthumanism, defined as a philosophy of mediation which addresses the meaning of humanity not in separation, but in relation to technology and ecology. The posthuman shift thus emerges in the global call for social change, responsible science and multispecies coexistence.

Posthumanism

Author : Stefan Herbrechter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780936222
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Posthumanism written by Stefan Herbrechter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be human today? The answer to this question, which is as old as the human species itself, is becoming less and less certain. Current technological developments increasingly erode our traditional humanist reflexes: consciousness, emotion, language, intelligence, morality, humour, mortality - all these no longer demonstrate the unique character and value of human existence. 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 critical introduction understands posthumanism as a discourse, which, in principle, includes everything that has been and is being said about the figure of the 'posthuman'. It outlines the genealogy of the various posthuman 'scenarios' in circulation and engages with their theoretical and philosophical assumptions and social and political implications. It does so by connecting the philosophical debate about the future of humanity with a range of texts, including examples from new media, popular culture, science and the media.

What Is Posthumanism?

Author : Cary Wolfe
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452942714
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book What Is Posthumanism? written by Cary Wolfe and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures

Author : Debashish Banerji
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 8132236378
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures written by Debashish Banerji and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a critical exploration of multiple posthuman possibilities in the 21st century and beyond. Due to the global engagement with advanced technology, we are witness to a species-wise blurring of boundaries at the edge of the human. On the one hand, we find ourselves in a digital age in which human identity is being transformed through networked technological intervention, a large part of our consciousness transferred to "smart" external devices. On the other hand, we are assisted---or assailed---by an unprecedented proliferation of quasi-human substitutes and surrogates, forming a spectrum of humanoids with fuzzy borders. Under these conditions, critical posthumanism asks, who will occupy and control our planet: Will the "superhuman" merely serve as another sign under which new regimes of dominance are spread across the earth? Or can we discover or invent technologies of existence to counter such dominance? It is issues such as these which are at the heart of this new volume of explorations of the posthuman. The essays in this volume offer leading-edge thought on the subject, with special emphases on postmodern and postcolonial futures. They engage with questions of subalternity and feminism vis-à-vis posthumanism, dealing with issues of subjugation, dispensability and surrogacy, as well as the possibilities of resistance, ethical politics or subjective transformation from South Asian archives of cultural and spiritual practice. This volume is a valuable addition to the on-going global dialogues on posthumanism, indispensable to those, from across several disciplines, who are interested in postcolonial and planetary futures.

Posthuman Studies Reader

Author : Eva D. Sampanikou
Publisher : Schwabe Verlagsgruppe
ISBN 13 : 9783796541933
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Posthuman Studies Reader written by Eva D. Sampanikou and published by Schwabe Verlagsgruppe. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 334 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.

Humanism and Its Discontents

Author : Paul Jorion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030670054
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Humanism and Its Discontents written by Paul Jorion and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains that while posthumanism rose in opposition to the biblical contention that 'Man was created in the image of God', transhumanism ascertained the complementary view that 'Man has been assigned dominion over all creatures', further exploring a path that had been opened up by the Enlightenment's notion of human perfectibility. It explains also how posthumanism and transhumanism relate to deconstruction theory, and on a broader level to capitalism, libertarianism, and the fight against human extinction which may involve trespassing the boundary of the skin, achieving individual immortality or dematerialization of the Self and colonisation of distant planets and stars. Two authors debate about truth and reason in today's world, the notion of personhood and the legacy of the Nietzschean Superhuman in the current varieties of anti-humanism. Paul Jorion, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at the Université Catholique de Lille, France. He trained as an anthropologist, sociologist and psychoanalyst. He taught at Cambridge University, UK, was a UCI Regents Lecturer and a member of the UCLA, USA, Human Complex Systems. He played a pioneering role in AI (British Telecom's Connex project) and in developing financial algorithms.

Posthumanism and Literacy Education

Author : Candace R. Kuby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351603086
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Posthumanism and Literacy Education written by Candace R. Kuby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering key terms and concepts in the emerging field of posthumanism and literacy education, this volume investigates posthumanism, not as a lofty theory, but as a materialized way of knowing/becoming/doing the world. The contributors explore the ways that posthumanism helps educators better understand how students, families, and communities come to know/become/do literacies with other humans and nonhumans. Illustrative examples show how posthumanist theories are put to work in and out of school spaces as pedagogies and methodologies in literacy education. With contributions from a range of scholars, from emerging to established, and from both U.S. and international settings, the volume covers literacy practices from pre-K to adult literacy across various contexts. Chapter authors not only wrestle with methodological tensions in doing posthumanist research, but also situate it within pedagogies of teaching literacies. Inviting readers to pause, slow down, and consider posthumanist ways of thinking about agency, intra-activity, subjectivity, and affect, this book explores and experiments with new ways of seeing, understanding, and defining literacies, and allows readers to experience and intra-act with the book in ways more traditional (re)presentations do not.

Postanthropocentric (Post-)Humanism

Author : Pia Balsmeier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783832551001
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Postanthropocentric (Post-)Humanism written by Pia Balsmeier and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its early beginnings in the 1980s, posthumanism gets in the line of theories that mark the critical impetus of 20th century theory. Originating in the deconstructive zeitgeist of the second half of the 20th century, the theory's claim to signal the beginning of a 'posthuman era' initially brings an impression of the dissolution of certainties - the target being nothing less than humanity itself. Since these beginnings, a huge variety of theoretical positions have come up under the umbrella term of posthumanism, all of them attempting an explanation of the implications and consequences of our transformation from human into posthuman. However, there is still a wide range of questions about the exact significance of the prefix: Is the 'post' in posthumanism the same as the 'post' we know from postcolonialism, poststructuralism and postmodernism? Does it translate as 'anti', 'after' or 'super', thus pointing either at the end of humanity or at a bodily or mentally upgrade of the human, or is it to be defined as a critical posture towards humanism? Who or what is the posthuman and in what way can it bring a benefit to our 21st century identities and societies? In consideration of the heterogeneity of positions, this work aims at a theoretical disambiguation of posthumanism in order to identify the perspective that brings a relevant benefit for 21st century critical theory. By means of a theoretical as well as literary inquiry, it shows that posthumanism is most productive in its critique of anthropocentric patterns in the late-capitalist and patriarchal western society.

Posthumanism

Author : Peter Mahon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474236829
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Posthumanism written by Peter Mahon and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Posthumanism

Author : Alan Smart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781442636439
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Posthumanism written by Alan Smart and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of ""more than human.""

The Posthuman Child

Author : Karin Murris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317511689
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Posthuman Child written by Karin Murris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Posthuman Child combats institutionalised ageist practices in primary, early childhood and teacher education. Grounded in a critical posthumanist perspective on the purpose of education, it provides a genealogy of psychology, sociology and philosophy of childhood in which dominant figurations of child and childhood are exposed as positioning child as epistemically and ontologically inferior. Entangled throughout this book are practical and theorised examples of philosophical work with student teachers, teachers, other practitioners and children (aged 3-11) from South Africa and Britain. These engage arguments about how children are routinely marginalised, discriminated against and denied, especially when the child is also female, black, lives in poverty and whose home language is not English. The book makes a distinctive contribution to the decolonisation of childhood discourses. Underpinned by good quality picturebooks and other striking images, the book's radical proposal for transformation is to reconfigure the child as rich, resourceful and resilient through relationships with (non) human others, and explores the implications for literary and literacy education, teacher education, curriculum construction, implementation and assessment. It is essential reading for all who research, work and live with children.

Posthumanism

Author : Neil Badmington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135030980X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Posthumanism written by Neil Badmington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is posthumanism and why does it matter? This reader offers an introduction to the ways in which humanism's belief in the natural supremacy of the Family of Man has been called into question at different moments and from different theoretical positions. What is the relationship between posthumanism and technology? Can posthumanism have a politics - post-colonial or feminist? Are postmodernism and poststructuralism posthumanist? What happens when critical theory meets Hollywood cinema? 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.