HighlightsPosthumanism represents the possibility of an emerging turn in the field of design.This article summarizes literature about posthumanism from several fields.This article gives an overview of related emerging design practices.This article also presents several critiques of posthumanism.Since at ...
Marxism is a useful critical framework when used alongside others (especially in literature), but on its own it seems hopelessly idealistic, ignorant of (or uncaring for) post-modern networked global culture, and soundly lodged in the craw of Victorian industrialisation. Cue brickbats from my more...
especially in the male-dominated mainstream cinema, where the posthuman is usually pictured as an augmented body with unlimited power (e.g. the MCU). However, there are cinematic paradigms which are more aligned with a critical posthumanist approach. Such examples can be found not only in specul...
Unrequited love in particular has long been pictured as noble and unselfish willingness to accept suffering. Nonetheless, the literature suggests a degree of euphoria in the limerence associated with unrequited love, which has the advantage of carrying none of the responsibilities of mutual relationships...
etc. – tower over thealienated selfand trigger what Trilling called the quest forauthenticity.Authenticityis the fall of the public self. The modern individual seeks fulfillmentagainst society.Modernist literature is Franz Kafka’s Josef K. fighting against the bureaucracy, George Orwell’s Winston ...
literature, provides a summary of extant scholarship that has also theorized these connections, and argues for the importance of sf in the history of posthumanist thought. Posthumanist theorists frequently turn to sf to elaborate or provide concrete examples of their ideas, and sf itself is a type...
This chapter makes the case for the importance of the early twentieth century in the emergence of posthumanism. Beginning by tracing two of the earliest examples of the word “posthuman,” the chapter explores the social movements, philosophical departur