The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism

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As our ideas of the human have come under increasing challenges – from technological change, from medical advances, from the existential threat of climate crisis amongst many other things – the ’posthuman‘ has become an increasingly central topic in the Humanities. Bringing together leading scholars from across the world and a wide range of disciplines, this is the most comprehensive available survey of cutting edge contemporary scholarship on posthumanism in literature, culture and theory. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism explores: - Central critical concepts and approaches, including transhumanism, new materialism and the Anthropocene - Ethical perspectives on ecology, race, gender and disability - Technology, from data and artificial intelligence to medicine and genetics - A wide range of genres and forms, from literary and science fiction, through film, television and music, to comics, video games and social media Cover Contents List of Figures Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Jacob Wamberg Part One Paradigms and Transformations 1 Humanism Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht 2 The Self and Subjectivity: Why the Enlightenment Is Relevant for Posthumanism Karin Kukkonen 3 Transhumanism Stefan Lorenz Sorgner 4 The Non-Human, Systems, and New Materialism Rick Dolphijn 5 The Anthropocene Pieter Vermeulen 6 The Ahuman Patricia MacCormack 7 Posthumanism: Critical, Speculative, Biomorphic David Roden 8 Rising Negentropy, Evolutionary Reboots, and Gaia as Attractor: Toward a Map of Contemporaneous Posthumanist Positions Jacob Wamberg Part Two Ethics 9 Environmentalisms and Posthumanisms Ursula K. Heise 10 Nonhuman Politics and Its Practices Iwona Janicka 11 Posthuman Feminist Ethics: Unveiling Ontological Radical Healing Francesca ­Ferrando 12 Race, Technology, and Posthumanism Holly Flint Jones and Nicholaos Jones 13 The Unity of Humanity Steve Fuller 14 Toward Posthuman Human Rights? Upendra Baxi 15 Disability, Neo-Materialism, and the Biopolitics of the Project of Western Man: Toward a Posthumanist Disability Theory David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder 16 Therapy, Enhancement, and the Posthuman Sarah Chan Part Three Technology 17 What Can We Learn from Eugenics? Nicholas Agar 18 The Medicalization of the Posthuman Transformation Trajectory Søren Holm 19 Life Extension and the Pursuit of Immortality Andy Miah 20 Sport, Technoscience, and Posthumanist Athletics Rayvon D. Fouché 21 Data and Information in the Posthuman Sensorium David Chandler 22 Robots and Artificial Intelligence: Posthumanism as Robophilosophy Johanna Seibt 23 Posthumanist Learning and Education Cathrine Hasse Part Four Aesthetics 24 What Aesthetics Tells Us about Posthumans Alexander Wilson 25 Literature’s Humanist Posthumanism Mads Rosendahl Thomsen 26 Posthuman Temporalities in Science and Bioart Pernille Leth-Espensen 27 Music Stefan Lorenz Sorgner 28 Posthumanism in Film and Television Ivan Callus 29 Digital Comics and Unstable Interfaces Edward King 30 Anime’s Situated Posthumanism: Representation, Mediality, Performance Jaqueline Berndt 31 Ready Player Two: The Digital Avatar as Extension of Self Kelly I. Aliano 32 Precarious Lives in the Age of Biocapitalism Pramod K. Nayar Index