The first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the origins and current state of transhumanist thinking The rapid pace of emerging technologies is playing an increasingly important role in overcoming fundamental human limitations. Featuring core writings by seminal thinkers …
The rapid pace of emerging technologies is playing an increasingly important role in overcoming fundamental human limitations. Featuring core writings by seminal thinkers in the speculative possibilities of the posthuman condition, essays address key philosophical arguments for …
"A globe-spanning investigation into the Transhumanist movement, considering the tech billionaires, scientific luminaries, and DIY body-hackers attempting to prolong, improve, and ultimately transcend the limits of human life"
"A globe-spanning investigation into the Transhumanist movement, considering the tech billionaires, scientific luminaries, and DIY body-hackers attempting to prolong, improve, and ultimately transcend the limits of human life"--
Transhumanism posits that humanity is on the verge of rapid evolutionary change as a result of emerging technologies and increased global consciousness. However, this insight is dismissed as a naive and controversial reframing of posthumanist thought. IAndrew Pilsch counters cri…
1. Introduction: Narrating the Nonhuman -- Section I: Nonhuman Poetics: Agency of Literary Forms -- 2. Forms of Agency, Agency of Forms: Reading and Teaching More-than-Human Fictions -- 3. Nonhuman Agencies in and of Literature -- 4. Deontologising the Nonhuman: Arthur Gordon Py…
"This volume offers an insight into a selection of current issues of embodiment and other related aspects, such as identity, gender, disability, or sexuality, discussed on the basis of examples from contemporary culture and social life. Inspired by Donna Haraway's concept of the…
2025 - Das Endspiel: oder Der Putsch von oben
2025 - Das Endspiel: oder Der Putsch von oben
