Posthumanism
1st Edition
Published on 11. September 2000
172 pages
978-1-350-30980-7 (ISBN)
Description
What is posthumanism and why does it matter? This reader offers an introduction to the ways in which humanism's belief in the natural supremacy of the Family of Man has been called into question at different moments and from different theoretical positions. What is the relationship between posthumanism and technology? Can posthumanism have a politics - post-colonial or feminist? Are postmodernism and poststructuralism posthumanist? What happens when critical theory meets Hollywood cinema? What links posthumanism to science fiction? Posthumanism addresses these and other questions in an attempt to come to terms with one of the most pressing issues facing contemporary society.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-350-30980-7 (9781350309807)
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NEIL BADMINGTON is a Lecturer at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Approaching Posthumanism; N. Badmington
The Great Family of Man; R. Barthes
The Instinct; R. Coward
The Wretched of the Earth (extract); F. Fanon
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (extract); M. Foucault
Marxism and Humanism (extract); L. Althusser
Prophylaxis and Virulence; J. Baudrillard
Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism be Posthuman?; P. Rabinowitz
Skin-Flick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs; J. Halberstam
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (extract); D. J. Haraway
Posthumanist (Com) Promises: Diffracting Donna Haraway's Cyborg Through Marge Piercy's Body of Glass; N. Badmington
Postcards from the Posthumanist Solar System; S. Bukatman
Pagans, Perverts or Primitives? Experimental Justice in the Empire of Capital; B. Readings
Can Thought Go on Without a Body?; J. Lyotard
Summaries
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Approaching Posthumanism; N. Badmington
The Great Family of Man; R. Barthes
The Instinct; R. Coward
The Wretched of the Earth (extract); F. Fanon
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (extract); M. Foucault
Marxism and Humanism (extract); L. Althusser
Prophylaxis and Virulence; J. Baudrillard
Soft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism be Posthuman?; P. Rabinowitz
Skin-Flick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs; J. Halberstam
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (extract); D. J. Haraway
Posthumanist (Com) Promises: Diffracting Donna Haraway's Cyborg Through Marge Piercy's Body of Glass; N. Badmington
Postcards from the Posthumanist Solar System; S. Bukatman
Pagans, Perverts or Primitives? Experimental Justice in the Empire of Capital; B. Readings
Can Thought Go on Without a Body?; J. Lyotard
Summaries
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes on Contributors.
