Posthuman Studies Reader

Evi D. Sampanikou; Jan Stasienko

doi:10.24894/978-3-7965-4318-0

Summary

The new reader presents an up-to-date collection of seminal texts dedicated to all branches of debates on Posthuman Studies: Transhumanism, Critical Posthumanism and Metahumanism. It includes classical as well as cutting-edge contributions to these debates. The Posthuman Studies Reader is an indispensable resource for studying as well as teaching key concepts, central claims and main arguments of contemporary debates in the field of Posthuman Studies. The reader includes texts by: Neil Badmington, Karen Barad, Nick Bostrom, Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Jaime del Val, FM-2030, Francis Fukuyama, Elaine Graham, Donna Haraway, Ihab Habib Hassan, N. Katherine Hayles, James Hughes, Julian Huxley, Brian Massumi, Max More, David Pearce, Anders Sandberg, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Stelarc, Natasha Vita-More and Cary Wolfe.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7965-4193-3
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7965-4318-0
Publisher: Schwabe, Basel / Berlin
Language: English
Pages: 335
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 6
Contents No access Pages 7 - 8
Stelarc: Anti-Prologue No access Pages 9 - 10
Introduction No access Pages 11 - 14
A. PEDIGREES OF POSTHUMAN STUDIES AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE AND CONTEMPORARY POSTHUMAN MOVEMENTS No access Pages 15 - 40
1. 1. Julian Huxley: Knowledge, morality, and destiny: I (1951) No access Pages 43 - 46
2. 2. FM-2030: Transhumans-2000 (1974) No access Pages 47 - 48
3. 3. Natasha Vita-More: Transhumanist Manifesto (1983/1998/2008/2020) No access Pages 49 - 56
4. 4. David Pearce: Hedonistic Imperative (1995) No access Pages 57 - 64
5. 5. Anders Sandberg: Morphological Freedom – Why we not just want it, but need it (2001) No access Pages 65 - 76
6. 6. Max More: The Proactionary Principle (2004/2005) No access Pages 77 - 84
7. 7. Francis Fukuyama: The World's Most Dangerous Ideas: Transhumanism (2004) No access Pages 85 - 88
8. 8. James Hughes: Democratic Transhumanism 2.0 (2004) No access Pages 89 - 114
9. 9. Nick Bostrom: Letter from Utopia (2006/2008/2020) No access Pages 115 - 122
10. 10. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: Nietzsche, the Overhuman, and Transhumanism (2009) No access Pages 123 - 136
1. 11. Ihab Habib Hassan: Prometheus as a Performer. Toward a Posthumanist Culture? (1977) No access Pages 139 - 140
2. 12. Donna Haraway: Cyborg, Companion Species, Chthulucene (1985/2003/2016) No access Pages 141 - 160
3. 13. N. Katherine Hayles: What does it mean to be posthuman? (1999) No access Pages 161 - 166
4. 14. Neil Badmington: Approaching Posthumanism (2000) No access Pages 167 - 174
5. 15. Elaine Graham: The Promise of Monsters (2002) No access Pages 175 - 182
6. 16. Brian Massumi: The Evolutionary Alchemy of Reason: Stelarc (2002) No access Pages 183 - 206
7. 17. Karen Barad: Posthumanist Performativity Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter (2003) No access Pages 207 - 234
8. 18. Cary Wolfe: What Is Posthumanism? (2010) No access Pages 235 - 250
9. 19. Rosi Braidotti: Posthuman Critical Theory (2013) No access Pages 251 - 256
10. 20. Claire Colebrook: Posthuman Humanities (2014) No access Pages 257 - 278
1. 21.Jaime del Val: Metahuman: Post-anatomical Bodies, Metasex, and Capitalism of affect in Post-posthumanism (2009/2016) No access Pages 281 - 294
2. 22. Jaime del Val and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: A Metahumanist Manifesto (2010) No access Pages 295 - 298
3. 23. Jaime del Val: The Dances of Becoming and the Metahumanist Manifesto. Its genealogy, evolution and relevance 10 years after (2020) No access Pages 299 - 304
4. 24. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: Adage of Metahumanism (2020) No access Pages 305 - 308
References No access Pages 309 - 330
Permissions No access Pages 331 - 335