Posthuman Glossary

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If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human at the centre of their respective realms. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a "posthuman condition"; the combination of new developments-such as the neoliberal economics of global capitalism, migration, technological advances, environmental destruction on a mass scale, the perpetual war on terror and extensive security systems, to name but a few significant markers of our time- with a troublesome reiteration of old, unresolved problems that mean the concept of the human as we had previously known it has undergone dramatic transformations. Posthuman Glossary is a volume providing an outline of the critical terms of posthumanity in present-day artistic and intellectual work. It builds on the broad thematic topics of Anthropocene/Capitalocene, eco-sophies, digital activism, algorithmic cultures and security and the inhuman. It outlines potential artistic, intellectual, and activist itineraries of working through the complex reality of the `posthuman condition', and attempts to create an understanding of the altered meanings of art vis-a-vis critical present-day developments. It aims to bridge multiple missing links across disciplines, terminologies, constituencies and critical communities. A completely original work which will unlock the terms of the posthuman for students and researchers alike. Cover page ......Page 1 Halftitle page ......Page 2 Series page ......Page 3 Title page ......Page 4 Copyright page ......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 13 Series Preface......Page 14 Contributors......Page 15 ANTHROPOS REDUX......Page 34 THE INTERDISCIPLINARY HUBS......Page 38 MULTIPLE AXES......Page 40 THE NEED FOR CREATIVITY......Page 43 MULTIPLE HUMANITIES......Page 44 MULTIPLE AFFECTS......Page 45 AFFECTIVE TURN......Page 48 AFROFUTURISM......Page 50 AHUMAN, THE......Page 53 AI (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE)......Page 54 ALGORITHM......Page 56 ALGORITHMIC STUDIES......Page 59 ALIENATION......Page 61 ALTERGORITHM......Page 62 ANIMACIES......Page 65 ANIMAL......Page 67 ANIMISM (LIMULUS)......Page 69 ANIMISM......Page 72 ANONYMITY......Page 74 ANTHROPISM/IMMANENT HUMANISM......Page 77 ANTHROPOCENE OBSERVATORY......Page 78 ANTHROPOCENE......Page 84 ANTHROPOS......Page 86 ARCHITECTONIC DISPOSITION......Page 88 ART......Page 92 ART IN THE ANTHROPOCENE......Page 96 BIOLOGICAL ARTS/LIVING ARTS......Page 99 BIOS......Page 101 BLUE HUMANITIES......Page 102 BODIES POLITIC......Page 105 BODY WITHOUT ORGANS......Page 107 CAMP......Page 110 CAPITALOCENE AND CHTHULUCENE......Page 112 COMMONS, THE......Page 116 COMMUTATION ONTOLOGY......Page 119 COMPUTATIONAL TURN......Page 121 CONTEMPORARY, THE......Page 124 COSMOPOLITICS......Page 125 CRITICAL POSTHUMANISM......Page 127 DECOLONIAL CRITIQUE......Page 130 DIFFRACTION......Page 132 DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP......Page 134 DIGITAL PHILOSOPHY......Page 137 DIGITAL RUBBISH......Page 140 EARTH......Page 143 (MATERIAL) ECOCRITICISM......Page 145 ECOHORROR......Page 148 ECOLOGIES OF ARCHITECTURE......Page 150 ECOMATERIALISM......Page 153 ECONTOLOGY......Page 156 ECOPATHY......Page 158 ECOSOPHY......Page 162 EPIGENETIC LANDSCAPE......Page 165 EQUATION (MATHEMATICAL THINKING)......Page 166 ETHEREAL SCENT......Page 171 EXCLUSION ZONE......Page 173 EXECUTION......Page 174 EXPULSIONS......Page 178 EXTENDED COGNITION......Page 181 EXTINCTION......Page 183 FEMINICITY......Page 187 FEMINIST POSTHUMANITIES......Page 190 FOOD......Page 193 FORESTS......Page 195 FOUR ELEMENTS......Page 200 GAGA FEMINISM......Page 203 GENERAL ECOLOGY*......Page 205 GEO-HYDRO-SOLAR-BIO-TECHNO-POLITICS......Page 208 GEOMYTHOLOGIES......Page 211 GEOPOLITICS......Page 214 GREEN/ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES......Page 217 GULF LABOR......Page 220 HACKING HABITAT......Page 224 HYPERSEA......Page 226 HYPERSOCIAL......Page 228 INFORMATIC OPACITY......Page 231 IN-HUMAN, THE......Page 232 IN/HUMAN......Page 234 INSURGENT POSTHUMANISM......Page 237 INTEREST/INTERESSE......Page 240 INTERMEDIALITY......Page 243 INVARIANCE......Page 245 ‘IT’......Page 249 JOY, ETHICS OF......Page 254 KIN......Page 258 LAMPEDUSA......Page 261 LEAKS AND STINGS......Page 264 LITERATURE OF LIBERATION......Page 265 LOCALITY/NON-SEPARABILITY......Page 268 MAKEHUMAN......Page 270 MATERIAL FEMINISMS......Page 275 MATTERING......Page 277 MAXWELL’S DEMON (NONANTHROPOCENTRIC COGNITION)......Page 280 MEDIANATURES......Page 284 METADATA SOCIETY......Page 286 METAMODERNISM......Page 289 METASTABILITY......Page 292 MONSTER/THE UNHUMAN......Page 294 MULTISPECIES......Page 298 MULTIVERSE......Page 299 NATURECULTURES......Page 302 NECROPOLITICS......Page 303 NEGENTROPY......Page 306 NEO/NEW MATERIALISM......Page 310 NEOCOLONIAL......Page 312 NEOCYBERNETICS......Page 314 NETWORKED AFFECT......Page 316 NEURONAL AESTHETICS......Page 318 NOISE......Page 320 NOMADIC SENSIBILITY......Page 323 NON-HUMAN AGENCY......Page 325 OBJECT-ORIENTED ONTOLOGY (OOO)......Page 329 OBSOLETE TECHNOLOGIES......Page 332 OCCUPY (AFTER DELEUZE)......Page 334 ONTOLOGICAL TURN, THE......Page 337 ORGANIZATION IN PLATFORM CAPITALISM......Page 339 OTHERWISE EMBODIED OTHERS......Page 341 P2P (PEER TO PEER) ECONOMIES......Page 343 PILL, THE (POSTHUMAN ICON)......Page 345 PLACENTA POLITICS......Page 348 PLANETARY......Page 351 PLASTICITY......Page 353 POLITICAL AFFECT......Page 356 POST INTERNET......Page 359 POSTANIMALISM......Page 362 POSTDISCIPLINARITY......Page 365 POSTGLACIAL......Page 369 POSTHUMAN CRITICAL THEORY......Page 372 POSTHUMAN DISABILITY AND DISHUMAN STUDIES......Page 375 POSTHUMAN ETHICS......Page 378 POSTHUMAN LITERATURE AND CRITICISM......Page 380 POSTHUMAN MUSEUM PRACTICES......Page 382 POSTHUMAN RIGHTS, A MICROPOLITICS OF......Page 385 POSTHUMAN SEXUALITY......Page 388 POSTHUMANISM......Page 389 POSTHUMANIST PERFORMATIVITY......Page 392 POSTIMAGE......Page 394 POSTMEDIEVAL......Page 395 PRECOGNITION......Page 398 PREGNANT POSTHUMAN, THE......Page 401 PROCESS ONTOLOGIES......Page 404 QUANTUM ANTHROPOLOGY......Page 407 RADICAL MEDIOCRITY......Page 409 RATIONALIST INHUMANISM......Page 412 REAL COOL ETHICS......Page 415 RESILIENCE......Page 418 REWILDING......Page 421 ROBOPHILOSOPHY......Page 423 SENSING PRACTICES......Page 427 SOCIALLY JUST PEDAGOGIES......Page 429 SPECULATIVE POSTHUMANISM......Page 431 SS = SECURITY/SURVEILLANCE......Page 435 STATELESS STATE......Page 437 STATIC GLOW......Page 440 STORIED MATTER......Page 444 SURVIVAL......Page 447 SYMBIOGENESIS......Page 449 TECHNICITY......Page 453 TECHNOANIMALISM......Page 456 TERRESTRIAL......Page 460 TOLERANCES AND DURATION......Page 462 TRANS*......Page 466 TRANS- CORPOR EAL ITY......Page 468 TRANSHUMANISM/POSTHUMANISM......Page 471 (UN)DOCUMENTED CITIZENSHIP......Page 473 URBANIBALISM......Page 475 VERTIGO SEA......Page 478 VIBRANT MATTER......Page 480 VIOLENCE......Page 481 WAR......Page 486 WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY......Page 488 XENOFEMINISM......Page 492 YOUTH......Page 496 ZOMBIE......Page 500 Cumulative Bibliography......Page 503