Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader
Giovanni Aloi, "Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader"
English | ISBN: 0231196660 | 2021 | 384 pages | PDF | 13 MB
English | ISBN: 0231196660 | 2021 | 384 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Posthumanism synthesizes philosophical, literary, and artistic responses to technological advancements, globalization, and mass extinction in the Anthropocene. It asks what it can mean to be human in an increasingly more-than-human world that has lost faith in the ideal of humanism, the autonomous, rational subject, and it models generative alternatives cognizant of the demands of social and ecological justice. Amid rising social justice movements, collapsing economic structures, and the dwindling power of cultural institutions, posthumanism advances thinking on new and previously unenvisionable challenges.
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