Practicing Theory in Second Language Writing
Practicing Theory in Second Language Writing features fourteen essays by distinguished scholars in second language writing who explore various aspects of theoretical work that goes on in the field.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism
... posthuman. (1999: xiv) By engaging in an activity such as Turing's experiment, an individual is already having a distinctly posthuman experience. What, then, does it mean to be “posthuman”? Hayles provides a list of qualifications for ...
Posthuman Life
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.
Posthumanism in digital culture
... posthuman affect seems to be impossible for the characters , who have moved into posthuman bodies . Instead , they use clones to record and repeat their ... Posthuman Theory Constructing the 'Posthuman' – Definitions, History Culture.
Posthumanism, Cognition, and Cyborg Spectatorship
... posthumanism often sees the posthuman subject as no longer ( fully ) human but an entity enhanced or transformed by technology . The main types of posthuman figures in popular culture hybrids ( cyborgs / clones ) , aliens , avatars ...
Posthuman Bodies
Posthuman Bodies addresses new interfaces between humans and technology that are radically altering the experience of our own and others' bodies.
How We Became Posthuman
In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age.
Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures
... posthuman post-dualistic perspective. In this sense, humans have always been posthuman. The posthuman extends over the boundaries of the academic, technological, and scientific ... Posthuman: A Spiritual Genealogy of Posthumanism.
The Posthuman
The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman.
Posthuman Studies Reader
"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 ...
Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism
... posthuman culture ? Who is the " posthuman " in posthuman aesthetics ? Nobody knows , of course . “ As we do not know how and when we became human , " Herbrechter reminds us , “ we also do not ( and thus cannot ) know how and when we ...
Mimetic Posthumanism
... posthuman persona or figure / figuration , for Braidotti , therefore becomes a necessary rhetorical trope ( a ... posthuman , " 53 it could be argued that the way she emphasizes the transformative potential of the posthuman figure ...
Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media
... posthuman awakening . Second , revelatory soundtrack music operates as another actant within the posthuman network . Extradiegetic music becomes its own source of information within the film , and this characteristic of the musical ...
Globalization and the Posthuman
... posthuman , it carries significant implications for the definition of human nature and for the relationship between the human species and its environment . The first part of this book suggests that conscious content is an indispensable ...
More Posthuman Glossary
This is an indispensible glossary for those who are exploring what the non-human, inhuman and posthuman might mean in the 21st century.
Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction
Contributors to the volume explore ideas of posthumanism, including democratization of power, body enhancements, hybridity, multiplicity/plurality, and the environment, by analyzing recent works for young adults, including award-winners ...
Representations of the Post/human
This work draws together a wide range of literature on contemporary technologies and their ethical implications. It focuses on advances in medical, reproductive, genetic and information technologies.
Posthuman Bodies
... Posthuman bodies are not slaves to masterdis- courses but emerge at nodes where bodies , bodies of discourse , and dis- courses of bodies intersect to foreclose any easy distinction between actor and stage , between sender / receiver ...
Human Rights in a Posthuman World
... posthuman means is now , before the trains of thought it embodies have been laid down so firmly that it would take dynamite to change them ' , 80 the tasks of human rights begin irrevocably all over again . Donna Haraway frames this in ...
Posthuman Visions in Postwar U.S. and Japanese Speculative Fiction
... posthuman vision is never progressive or transcendental . Rather , it keeps presenting the struggles of the posthumans with an intense focus on human and posthuman bodies that are located in a series of networks . Her novels never ...