Posthumanism: A critical analysis

Herbrechter seeks to mediate between the extreme enthusiasm for transforming humans with technology and the extreme opposition to it by relativizing the apparent radical novelty of the posthuman phenomenon. The idea of posthumanism relies on questions and problems that have a long history, he says, and are therefore closely connected to other past and present contexts. He discusses towards a critical posthumanism; a genealogy of posthumanism; our posthuman humanity and the multiplicity of its forms; posthumanism and science fiction; interdisciplinarity and the posthumanities; posthumanism, digitalization, and new media; and posthumanity as subject and system. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)