Posthumanisms

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ID22964447
AuthorsPramod K Nayar (0000-0003-2317-6570, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume30
Issue1
Pages227-251
Publication date2022-09-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Year s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-4254 • E-ISSN: 1471-681X
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/ywcct/mbac006
OpenAlexW4293250288
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

Posthumanism as a school of thought and a theme in literary and cultural texts strives to keep pace with developments such as terraforming or genetic engineering, but also engages philosophically and politically with those developments, in the form of enunciating questions about human identity, nonhuman agency, and ethics. In more recent times, posthuman thought has moved into areas as diverse as climate change, the Anthropocene, legal identity, and pedagogy. It also continues, as this chapter’s review of books, book chapters, and journal articles published in the year 2021 shows, to be interested in legal subjectivity, ideas of personhood, human genealogy, and their cultural expressions in the form of pop culture and literary texts. The chapter is divided into seven sections: 1. Surveying Posthumanism; 2. Posthumanisms and the Anthropocene; 3. Posthuman Performance; 4. Transhumanism; 5. Posthumanism, Law, and Ethics; 6. Posthumanism and the Pandemic; 7. Conclusion.

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Anthropocene · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Mimicry · Personhood · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Theme (computing) · Transhumanism · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction

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